Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself a "form of anti-party activity." Perhaps deviationist Browder, who is still the Kremlin's publishing agent in the U.S., was also being held in reserve, in case Moscow's line should be changed again. In any event the comrades at the Riverside Plaza slammed the door in his face...
...door was subsequently opened to him. The Un-American Activities Committee invited him in to tell what he knew about the C.P. But Browder, testifying at a special closed session in Manhattan, said little. Afterwards, he wandered out, sat on a bench in Foley Square and told the press even less...
...manager walked up, Fox pulled out his pistol and said: "I want all the money-and I'm not fooling." He kept the manager covered while a woman teller scooped $8,155 in currency into a canvas bag and brought it to him. He backed to the door, walked out, made a getaway...
...friendly side of Bob Eichelberger soon won the Japanese. He picked up hitchhikers in his car, swapped gifts with peddlers on the streets. His office door was always open to a Japanese. Unlike MacArthur, he got around, made friends with hundreds of big and little Japanese. To the Japanese, aloof, impersonal Douglas MacArthur had supplanted their Emperor as the personification of supreme authority. Eichelberger became a symbol of U.S. democracy and fairness. Many Japanese said "Aikerubaga" in the same affectionate tone used by many of his soldiers in calling him "Uncle...
...lake the gentleman stepped into a little boat and was rowed over to the island in its center. Ducks quacked and splattered indignantly as he stepped ashore, entered a small concrete hut, carefully closed the steel door behind him. A few minutes later he emerged hatless, took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his brow. Dr. Hugh Watts, Chief Inspector of Explosives for the Home Office, had just disarmed his 22nd postal bomb...