Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming house. Bad Boy turned his .22 around and shot himself through the roof of the mouth. He was dead when the cops broke down his door...
...Army draftees were not to be regarded as species of a low zoological order but as young citizens, each with a militant Mom poised and ready to holler outside a Congressman's door. Furthermore, they were to be treated with patience, tolerance and understanding and were never to be subjected to the flash-burn of Old Army profanity...
...Communists everywhere, the upset meant a frenzied scramble for a new pitch. The Moscow radio clapped a hand over its own mouth for more than 24 hours. Excited Communists in Frankfurt tacked up a candid sign on the door to their conference room: "Meeting scheduled for today has been postponed because of Truman's election." Explained a harassed party official: "We have suspended scheduled activities for today, awaiting new orders...
...some business to conduct with a high-ranking official of Rumania's heavily guarded Ministry of the Interior. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally managed to work his way into the imposing white ministry building, and past innumerable guards, to the top floor. There stood two doors with a hardboiled, armed member of the security police posted before each one. The American showed his credentials to the guard at the first door, who looked him over suspiciously and disappeared into the official's office. The American waited, standing first on one foot, then on the other. Suddenly...
Since they always leave their door unlocked, they surmised that the man who had made off with the leaflets had "planted" them there before making his departure. At the estimated time of the incident, about 10 p.m., John Cramer '52 and Stephen E. Hedberg '52 asserted they were "at the movies" with Hugh B. Hartwell '52, while Peter A. Brooke '52 claimed he was "at a jam session...