Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knock on the Door. At midnight in his barracks-like study in Milan, Father "X" answered some questions about A.C., parried others. Was he the leader of the organization? Father X would neither admit nor deny it. Who was the leader? His deadpan reply: "I don't think it's generally known." Then he said...
...wide swatch of deserted houses left by Arabs and Jews who had lived side by side. The streets in front of these houses were littered with the debris of terror-old shoes, a battered wide-brimmed felt hat of an Orthodox Jew, an old scarf. One house's door hung slantwise on a twisted hinge, as though its occupants had plunged wildly through it in mad haste. On the rooftops were British sentries with Bren guns. Also to be seen were rooftop Jewish guards-young Haganah members; technically illegal, they were unarmed, but they kept arms within hand...
While Father X talked, there came a knock on the door. A young, weatherbeaten face peered in. "You have a package for me?" asked Father X. "All right, bring it in." A moment later three young men appeared, grunting under the weight of a long package. It was pointed at one end, wide and flat at the other. Toward the pointed end was a bulge-just where the feet of a machine gun fold...
...Party Missed. Meanwhile, Philip, on his first day back from his honeymoon, reported for duty in the Operations Section of the Admiralty, using a side door to dodge the mobs of curious women thronging the front entrance. Next day he drove his bride over to examine Clarence House, their 32-room London house, where workmen were still clearing up blitz damage. Until Clarence House and Windlesham Moor, their country house, are ready for them, Elizabeth and Philip are staying on with the family at Buckingham Palace. Late in the week, they ducked the annual Christmas Party for the Palace servants...
...visit, dropped in at the opera, and was forbidden to enter the Metropolitan Opera Club for a snack at intermission: he was not wearing tails. Though his host was the club's president, Landon reported later, "nothing . . . would change the mind of the man at the door." Observed the onetime candidate for President of the U.S.: "It's not the first time I was barred from a place...