Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door opened and Chambers walked in. "Mr. Hiss," said Nixon, "the man standing here is Whittaker Chambers. I ask you now if you have ever known that man before...
...done. Most staffers had knocked off; the desks had released the legmen who had kept watch up at the Russian consulate. Soon the men on the Babe Ruth watch, at Memorial Hospital a mile away, could go home, leaving the watch to the morning papers. Next door to the Soviet consulate, half a dozen photographers idled. Across the street three reporters lolled in the lobby of the Hotel Pierre...
...Back Door. Loewy, whose first soap wrapper design was for Lehn & Fink Products Corp., came into the Unilever empire through the back door. In 1938, up & coming young Charles Luckman hired him to redesign the package for Pepsodent toothpaste. Most toothpaste packages then screamed for attention with garish red containers and bold black print. Loewy persuaded Pepsodent to give its package an aseptic white exterior, with modest script lettering, which would make it look nice on a cosmetics counter. Up went Pepsodent's sales by 17%. When Pepsodent and Luckman moved into Unilever's huge U.S. branch, Lever...
Three hours and ten minutes after Schoolteacher Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina plunged from the Soviet consulate in Manhattan last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), television station WPIX was on the air with a newsreel of the shocking incident. Thousands of televiewers saw Mrs. Kosenkina lying against an iron grille door in the consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd...
...October 1944, the British bombed the Dutch island of Walcheren (pop. 60,000), which is largely below sea level. When the bombs fell, "the dikes bowed their straight backs like animals rearing in fright . . . Suddenly the water began to move across Walcheren. It billowed in through the front door of Flushing and the side door of Westkapelle; through the back door of Veere it ran out . . . Now the air photos grew daily more satisfactory. Dozens of red circles were marked in the gray. Each circle stood for a group of enemy pillboxes. On each new photograph a dozen circles were...