Word: doored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indefatigable, impresses audiences with his friendliness and his erect bearing. No phrasemaker, his speeches are short, well-organized and delivered in a loud clear voice. He always asks for questions, repeats each question word for word before answering it. As soon as he finishes, he jumps for the door, shakes every hand he can reach. To prepare himself for the 1948 campaign, he made a nine-week, 16-country trip to Europe, interviewed Stalin, Attlee, Rama-dier, Benes, De Gasperi and the Pope...
...committee. He refused to hear Producer Dore Schary as a character witness, ruling that Lawson's character and political beliefs were not at issue. He refused to see The Jolson Story or any of the other Lawson films which the defense had stacked in cans outside the courtroom door. And he indignantly brushed aside a defense contention that he was guilty of misconduct in asking the purpose of the Thomas Committee's inquiry, which the defense contended would "bias" the jury against Lawson...
...main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...
...Reopened Door. After months of negotiations Cities Service Co., and Antonio Bermudez, boss of Mexico's government-owned oil monopoly Pemex, signed a historic agreement in Mexico City. The deal brought a major U.S. oil company into Mexican oil development for the first time since 1938, when expropriation drove most foreign companies out. Under the deal Cities Service will set up a Mexican subsidiary (Mexico-Cities Service Petroleum Corp.) to provide the capital, and presumably the machinery and technical help, for Pemex's development of a million-acre tract in northeastern Mexico...
...summer, after two months of pounding, sawing, and scraping, the house began to assume an air of respectability. One of the big jobs was wrecking an old shed which nearly filled the space between the house and the one next door--formerly the barn of the Murphy house...