Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison...
Said Mrs. Olechny later: "At three o'clock one morning Russian soldiers knocked at the door, and told me we had one hour to pack our things and leave. They took us to Pinsk and loaded us into boxcars-60 to a car." As the slow train moved through the Russian winter, five babies froze to death. Their mothers pushed them out into the snow...
Pramote, who had heard the shot, ducked out the back door and dived into a canal. The Dwarf tore off his blue gown and rushed into the house, firing wildly. He killed Pramote's eight-year-old niece and the Ceylonese guest. Then The Dwarf dashed out, shouting to his pal to start Pramote's Packard. Pramote's chauffeur protested, trying to protect his boss's car. The Dwarf killed him, too. By the time police arrived, The Dwarf had disappeared...
...Prague, another correspondent for a free press got a revealing look at the ways of dictatorship. Stepping out of the door of his room at the Hotel Flora, scholarly Hans Tütsch of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of Switzerland's biggest newspapers, saw a middle-aged woman carrying a big radio set. As he watched, she moved into room 130, next door. Tütsch later pointed out the woman to well-informed Czech friends, learned that she and her husband were both notorious police spies...
...When he followed it along the wall, it led him out on the balcony, then through the window of room 130. Stepping inside, Tütsch confronted the Czech espionage team. They were comfortably lounging in easy chairs next to a big loudspeaker, expectantly waiting for noises from next door. Said Tütsch: "They were very much surprised to see me." Indignantly, Tütsch marched to the office of Czech Press Boss Evzen Klinger, charged him with a "flagrant breach of confidence," and headed home to the free air of Switzerland...