Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purification and study. At the temple gateway stood Chief Priest Nissei Nakakita, asking the novices for six times last year's entrance fee. For three months of contemplation and 700 duckings in the ice-cold waters of the temple pump, 58 novices paid the inflated rate. Outside "the door that is not opened" devoted followers waited eagerly for their cries as freezing water coursed down their naked bodies...
...days the prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita...
Smoker expenses may call for an unprecedented amount of monetary aid this year with a seemingly unavoidable $125 charge for the use of Memorial Hall heading the list. Other anticipated liabilities pose the possibility of a nominal door-charge to bolster limited funds...
...open forum. The U.S.S.R.'s Historian Eugene Tarle and David Zaslavsky, co-editor of Pravda, among others, have used it to get their viewpoints in print before the U.S. public. But last week, editors began to suspect that Soviet propagandists were getting set to crowd through the door in droves. Several influential papers had received and printed letters from Moscow, written in perfect English, expensively cabled and signed by private Soviet citizens-or at least bearing their names...
...Only as a last resort" will the committee decide on door charges, Judd asseried. At present, program advertising, supported by a Council loan, is figured to cover all costs...