Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sprawled comfortably in his high-backed committee chair, Chairman Vandenberg was obviously feeling pleased with his contribution. After more than a month of hearings and five days of closed-door conferences, his Foreign Relations Committee had approved, by unanimous vote, the first draft of the European Recovery Program. The job had been done without a major fight...
...village. Except for the dogs, it seemed deserted—some peasants had joined the Andartes; some were sleeping in the fields for safety's sake. From one house, however, a light glimmered. A Greek captain knocked. A woman's voice called: "Is that you, comrade?" She opened the door sufficiently to push out two loaves of bread, slammed it shut again. The captain smiled weakly: "She thinks we are Andartes...
...warm winter's day in Tokyo last week, self-effacing Tetsu Katayama herded his cabinet members to the back door of the Prime Minister's residence. To waiting photographers he explained with a shy, tired smile: "The back is better because we are going out, you know." The pictures over, Katayama solemnly wrapped his state papers in a purple scarf and bustled off to report the fall of his cabinet to the Emperor (he had already told General MacArthur...
Finally at two o'clock on the dot a car pulled up to unload five "fools," one rooster, one hen, one pig, one heifer, one dog, one goat, and one skunk. The crowd surged up Plympton Street, through the main gate, up the steps of Widener, in the front door, and through the reading room, band, animals, and enlookers which by this time included most of the Cambridge Latin student body...
...this point, the hen flew its coop and in the meice the animals were judged or something, and the crowd surged out the door again. Half of them went down the steps, but a hardy few remained at the top to pelt the populace with a rain of snowballs...