Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plank was full of knots. It endorsed reciprocal trade agreements, but added a phrase which left the door open for high tariffs and a generally protectionist policy. Otherwise, the foreign policy section followed the precepts of Senator Vandenberg...
...clock Saturday night, Bob Taft, taking things firmly in hand, walked over to the House cloakroom to talk turkey to Speaker Martin. While Martin recessed the House, G.O.P. leaders trooped in to his office and slammed the door. On the floor, House members broke into song; a barbershop quartet sang Let the Rest of the World...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea of the 23 most influential people in the U.S. was reported by René de Chambrun, who published in This Week a list the President had jotted down for him in 1940. Next-door neighbors on the list: Robert Taft and Henry Wallace. Among the missing: Harry Truman. Final name on the list: Mrs. F.D.R...
...Then the door through which she had disappeared opened, and a young man in blue work shirt and dungarees tramped across the bare floor. Looking neither to right nor left, he vanished beyond the folding doors. A few moments later, Anna Brinton came to the door, leaned in and said: "The FBI man has gone." Howard Brinton went on talking, but suddenly realized what had been said. "What FBI man?"* he asked. But, with Quakerly tact, Anna Brinton had withdrawn...
...seemed that "the whole canine population of France and Belgium" had collected to be evacuated, too. Troops took to the water on homemade rafts-and it was a sight to see one such raft, made of wood and an old door and manned by a French officer and two Belgians, equipped for the voyage with a very old bicycle, two tins of crackers, and "six demijohns of wine." In the main, French soldiers, naturally chary of seawater, refused to wade out to the boats (one officer even signaled: "I have just eaten and am therefore unable to enter the water...