Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They pasted on the front fender a sign: "Down with British Imperialism." I stuck my head out and said: "I'm not British." A bespectacled student in a long blue gown said pleasantly: "I'm sorry." Then he and his friends pasted another sign on the rear door. It said: "Down with British Imperialism and the U.S.A...
Back in Tokyo again, the Akai family built a tidy shack on the ruins of their old home. While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
...pity, horror - born of the event; and with more jagged emotions that the event brings to the surface. And always, beyond the emotions that darken the scene, there is the knowledge that in a few hours, a few minutes, a few seconds, there will come a knock on the door...
...Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...
...remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail jailing over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the saber cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards...