Word: door
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week in the Japanese city of Kobe, Zen Buddhist monks from the great temple of Shofukuji (Good Omen) met an unusual reception. Instead of showing reverence, people cracked seemingly typical Zen koans (problem riddles). "You look like the one who was admiring nude pictures," giggled one housewife, slamming the door in a novice priest's face. Snapped another tart-tongued woman: "Wash out your mind before I fill your bowl...
...seek outlets." That was no surprise to some cynical Japanese, who say that novice Zen priests often slip anchor at night after the temple supervisor goes home. Many steer straight for the local brothel, where the madam courteously bundles them inside without obtrusive haggling at the door. Others hold frequent cookouts near the temple, wolfing down undercover banquets to fatten a temple diet of soybean soup and boiled radishes...
...weather was foul - a 400-ft. ceiling, two-mile visibility, wind eight miles an hour, freezing rain-but hardly challenging to a 28,000-hour veteran (40 hours in Electras) like DeWitt. Neither was the approach from the northeast over the East River through LaGuardia's "back door." The back door's runway 22 was equipped with only a radio localizer enabling pilots to line up their planes with the 5,000-ft. runway, lacked the glide-slope signal and the brilliant neon approach lights of instrument runway 4. Routinely. DeWitt flew over runway 22's checkpoint...
Frank Takes Gun still has some vociferous opposition to contend with. Says State Senator Vincent M. Vesley of New Mexico's Grant County: "We are leaving the door open to some religious groups coming in here and possibly saying that marijuana should be used as part of its religious practice." New Mexico's Temperance League plans to organize a campaign urging the Governor to veto the pro-peyote bill. "We don't think it's a good thing for the state," said the league's executive secretary, the Rev. Durward R. Trolinger last week. "Peyote...
...this? Working with local community services, churches, hospitals, welfare agencies, schools, but above all through personal example. The kind of "lay witness" called for is sometimes possible only with close friends, "but the door of personal testimony is never fully closed, and the word spoken by the sincere man . . . carries more weight than he realizes. The 'home with the open door' is everywhere one of the most immediate human influences. As an oil executive, engineer or businessman, [the Christian] should consider his main objective not in terms of dividends for shareholders, or power for America, or prestige...