Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Participants: The 16 Paris conferees* Western .Germany. The door was left open for other European nations which might subscribe to the plan. A special plan for China aid would be presented during the next session of Congress...
Johnson found the door shut at New York's City College, Eisler at the universities of Michigan and Wisconsin (Marzani was also banned at Wisconsin). Howard Fast tried to speak on four campuses (Columbia, Brooklyn, City College and Hunter College) before a fifth, New York University...
...started his first novel at the age of 16, and then (in 1843) ran away to join the Texas navy, only to be brought home again. His father a West Point graduate and onetime governor of Indiana, said to him: "I am sorry, disappointed, mortified; so, without shutting the door upon you, I am resolved that from today you must go out and earn your own livelihood. I shall watch your course hopefully...
...whom were afraid to testify. Unexpectedly, a letter came from William H. ("Billy the Kid") Bonney, offering to talk: he had seen Murphy partisans kill Tunstall's successor. Wallace promised Billy immunity, agreed to meet him at 9 p.m. at the home of a Tunstall man. "The door swung slowly open, and there stood the Kid, a Winchester in his right hand and a revolver in his left. He was a mere boy in years and appearance-nineteen, five feet seven, thin, light-haired, blue-eyed. This was the terrible Kid, companion of thieves and murderers since...
...husband had been assigned to Japan; they spent a year there, and another six in Moscow. One night in Moscow in 1936, her husband woke her and said: "We have visitors." Two OGPU officers ransacked the apartment while a soldier barred the door; the next morning they marched her husband off to be "examined." She never saw him again...