Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before.leaving by the front door, Dean Acheson slammed America's back door behind him. To such apprehensive nations as Australia and Korea, which had cried aloud for a Pacific pact, Secretary Acheson answered: the time was not ripe. Obviously, he was directing all his attention to Europe at the moment...
...gold-shod Arabian steeds, Franco rode to the Cortes. No less resplendent than his escorts, whose azure, red & orange capes flowed in the wind, the Caudillo wore the yellow, red & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand to hear the Caudillo was a fine array of foreign diplomats, but conspicuously...
About Tenney's activities and the oath bills, Peter H. Odegard, chairman of the department of Political Science at the Berkeley branch of the University of California, has wired the CRIMSON that the loyalty measures are not "offensive in themselves, but open the door to all manner of petty persecutions...
...best crews that Tom Bolles ever coached clustered one day last week at the door of Harvard's boathouse. Said Coach Bolles, plopping a battered hat on his bald head: "It'll be rough when we get down to the basin, but the water may be like that at Syracuse...
...miserable." He feels "lonelier than God," exhausted by his "endless efforts to put a simple idea in some form that would perfuse skulls hardened against it." It is a rough weekend for a man who thinks he is dying: Yvonne, fired by her instincts, hammers incessantly on his bedroom door; Marcia leaves Paul, and he poises himself on the terrace ledge and threatens a 16-story jump into Madison Avenue...