Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby to the door...
...State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...
Jasmine & Satin. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat last week, a strapping black African sentry, resplendent in scarlet uniform, white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
During his stay there, Lorenz was given a room to himself in the five-room apartment. Usally that room served as living-dining room for the family. The American often left his door open to encourage the rest of the family to share the room with him. But his over-gracious hosts simply shut the door again...
Just inside the front door of Fuld Hall at the Institute of Advanced Study the switchboard was humming busily. "Professor Street from Harvard," the operator said. "He wants to talk to Doctor Yang...