Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes lost in memory. She had no need to be dressed for company, for hardly anybody drops in to pay a call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make her way to the church and light a candle to St. Mary. On her way back she stops to see her friend, the butcher. "Is my son a traitor?" she asks him then. "Is that what people...
Office workers found the detonating wires still lying on the floor, along with several Blackjack chewing gum wrappers. It was deduced that the gum was used to tamp the explosive into holes drilled in the safe door. The police found finger prints all over the place, but no one was over apprehended for the robbery...
...psychology of jokes. Since the war, research has lagged a bit because the staff's energies were diverted to the problems of teaching swarms of Social Relations majors. Next year, however, an expanded research program is planned, and the Clinic is expanding to meet it. The house next door will be annexed, and adjoining it, a small theater will be built for use in a radical new kind of group therapy, the psychodrama, where patients act out their problems in spontaneous playlets...
...pulled up short to keep from ramming a parking meter and headed across the tracks into the light from the store front. The magazine rack was right in front of the door...
...quarter under his palm; it resounded too loudly against the counter. He hurried out, the book in his pocket, back cover out. He turned towards the houses, his stride just a little longer than normal. By the time he got to his entry he was almost running. The door slammed shut and Vag rocketed into the arm chair. He lit a cigarette and began to read...