Word: door
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three patrolmen were arrested after a rookie saw them walk away from a Manhattan shoe store where one door lock had been removed and a second tampered with...
Life of the Party. In Indianapolis, the Democratic sheriff's deputies were especially pleased when Democrat Mrs. Opal Kremer took over as county recorder, because her Republican predecessor had kept the door of the toilet locked, refusing to share it with Democrats...
...cooking in the window. All kinds of people flocked in-folk singers, junkies. We gave them hash. If you were lucky, we threw an egg on it." Afterhours, Belafonte and his pals started to organize a folk-singing group. Says Attaway: "We wouldn't even open the door unless we needed somebody. The guy would rap, and we would open up and say: 'O.K., we need a bass, you can come in.' " The Sage failed (the three partners used to try to raise the payroll for the help by sitting in on a weekly poker game...
...sensible and constructive reporting of the U.S. defense posture. More than a year ago V. M. Newton Jr., managing editor of the Tampa Tribune and chairman of the Advancement of Freedom of Information Committee of Sigma Delta Chi, laid a bitter protest against "Pentagon secrecy" at Snyder's door. When Newton repeated Snyder's answer ("All legitimate news of the Pentagon is available to the press") to a group of Pentagon reporters, it generated "a long, loud and unanimous hoot of derision." Said Newton: "Not a single voice among working Washington correspondents was raised in support...
...Defense post, Snyder works long hours, most of them behind his closed office door. He rarely goes out, and newsmen rarely go in; many a Pentagon reporter has not talked to Murray Snyder in months. On the infrequent occasions when he talks to newsmen, there is usually a Snyder aide sitting by, auditing the interview. Newsmen, military officers and defense contracting industrialists go over, under and around him in their efforts to tell the U.S. defense story. All of this dismayed Congressman John E. Moss's Subcommittee on Government Information. A repeated witness before this and the House Armed...