Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand up. They searched him, took away his Labor Progressive (Communist) Party card, and hustled him out of the building. They seized 1,000 copies of Combat, and gathered up office files, pamphlets and pictures of Stalin, Molotov and Canadian Communist Leader Tim Buck. Then they sealed the door of the Combat office...
...Albina Patino and her children control 80% of the stock, she had, in effect, elected herself. But few would dispute her qualifications. When the door of the blue marble tomb at Cochabamba, Bolivia, clanged shut last May on the mortal remains of her 84-year-old husband, there was no one left alive who knew as much as she about the building of the empire. She had had as big a share as Simon in creating...
...unexpected shower sprinkled it away). There were also some explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed the picture "Mousie"; Ella Raines showed a circus scene and signed...
...needed an early start at his fire-making. His Hull Home, in downtown St. John's, was jampacked with 70 boarders, most of them government-supported poor, aged or infirm, awaiting admission to public institutions. Proprietor Hull lit the kitchen oil range, then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently spread by an explosion in the kitchen range, licked over the varnished woodwork and blocked the hallways...
Last week the Times, with a candor born of maturity, opened the door on its trophy case-and a closet of skeletons. In the third volume of its autobiography (The History of the Times, 1884-1912, Macmillan; $6.50), it told how it once blundered to the brink of bankruptcy...