Word: doored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate wing. The old English Minton floor tiles, laid in the 1850s and now irreplaceable, had begun to heave upward. They buckled into a ridge 20 feet long. Capitol architects guessed the cause was a sudden change of temperature. Reporters happily accepted the theory that someone had opened a door from the Senate chamber and let out a blast...
Though the French delegation's statement also left a cautious door open, it may overnight have become reconciled to the desirability of a Force by the amazing sight of a Rightist underground plot that almost succeeded (though the attendant fanfare makes it possible that the danger was not so close a thing as advertised). In any event, the big precedent of a strong world police force seems for the first time something more than a vague wish. If nations are indeed merely individuals writ large, the states of the world may soon be learning the delights of having...
...squint my eyes and I draw a bead on the door...
...feel quite a lot about a country from the way its people talk to you. In Russia almost everybody was cautious about talking to a stranger. In Finland, right next door, they tell you what they think-even about Russia. Said one Finn, over a weak beer: "It's too bad. Russians are often such fine people individually. We have many things in common; we both like to drink. But get them in a mass and they go crazy...
According to Havelock's own story, at about 8:15 o'clock he heard several doorknobs being tried outside his room, but paid no attention to this until his own began to turn. At this point he opened the door, to be confronted by the muzzle of an automatic pistol...