Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third day of bitter debate, a thrice-wounded World War II veteran, Texas Democrat Olin Teague, moved again to kill the bill. His white hair on end, ranting John Rankin demanded a roll call and pleaded: "Do not shut the door of hope in the faces of those old men who fought World War I." As the ayes and nays of the final roll call droned on, the House was so tensely quiet that the click of the clerk's mechanical hand-counter was audible in the galleries. By a single vote, 208 to 207, the House had finally...
...always warned her boys against: he got mixed up with a woman. He married a skinny, hysterical divorcee named Jennie Wynne. One morning two weeks ago, Jennie took one of her spells and Lloyd begged off work to take care of her. She met him inside the door of their trim, white cottage and blasted his head half off with a 20-gauge shotgun. Last week Charlie Klein closed up the restaurant and some 50 people went out to Brighton for the funeral of the only one of Ma's boys who ever did an honest...
...Bang on the Door. In her first installment, Anna Louise related...
...went to bed [in Moscow] very early on Monday, Feb. 14 . . .A bang on the door awoke me and the loud word: 'Open!' ... I threw on a kimono . . . Three men in uniform strode in. 'Come with us. You are arrested...
Green Pastures. Vargas led the way slowly into the house, sat down near the door. There was not a picture on the wall, nor a rug on the floor. Over the unpainted table, bare except for letters and newspapers lying on a small radio, hung a naked light bulb. In the adjoining room stood a metal bed, a lavender-colored wardrobe, a few nondescript wooden chairs. "My parents were farmers," Vargas began. "Now that I am an old man, it is good to be back in my childhood scenes...