Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settled in the lighted corridors and the dim rooms and wards of St. Anthony's Hospital at Effingham, Ill. Outside, the town (pop. 8,000) and its surrounding farms slept. An operator-nun sat at the hospital switchboard, waiting for emergency calls. Out in the hall the elevator door banged open; a nun hurried from it to report that smoke was drifting in the hospital's upstairs corridors...
After that, things should have been better for Claude, but there were other forces to fear. Last week, outside his cottage, Claude heard footsteps. He stepped to the door. A voice called: "We are your friends, Claude. We have come unarmed. We want to talk...
Into the Fog. Claude threw open the door, clicked the bolt of his Mauser. In the yard a man shouted, "He's coming with the gun!" Claude fired again & again. Then, screaming, he ran into...
...little boy who found his allergy useful against his parents was 6½-year-old Jeff. He told the investigators: "When they punish me and whip me I want to slam the door and break things and run away and get out. But I can't ... I can't do nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when...
...chase airplanes" (to observe the X-1 in flight), the B-29 circled to 7,000 ft. above the lake. Then Chuck, bundled in a flying suit and topped with a golden, hard-plastic crash helmet, climbed down a retractable ladder and squeezed through the door in the side...