Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politician, he extorted all to work for the opposition's downfall, and not to worry about Harvard. Then he asked for contributions for the common cause. He didn't want the money for himself, he pleaded, since he wasn't running. The audience almost beat me to the door--but not quite...
...Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns was low as death's door and suggested little beyond the threshold...
...Press Chief Georgi Pavlevich Frantsev promised that there would be no trouble getting a re-entry permit. (Until the regulations were changed last spring, such a permit had been automatically issued with the exit visa.) But when Newman tried to return to Moscow three months ago, he found the door shut. Last week the Herald Tribune reluctantly announced the closing of its vacant Russian office. That left just five U.S. correspondents in Moscow,* about half the number that was there when Reporter Newman arrived...
Women got their foot in banking's door during World War I, when many bank officers were called to military services. They became firmly established during World War II. Today the Association of Bank Women has members in 43 states and the Territory of Hawaii...
...doors stayed closed. Many an old-timer resented Schulberg's public airing of a private grievance; some speculated skeptically on how quickly he would have shut the door on such an appeal when he was on the inside. But at week's end, Showman Schulberg reported a nibble. Some eastern bankers, he said, had approached him with an idea of forming a whole new company. But "I can't give out any more details until it jells...