Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth, the niggers with common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick Nixon and get us the biggest nigger families we can find to send up and move in. We're goin' to see just how these civil righters perform when the problem is across the street or next door...
...hour daily duty of keeping up with him, outate, outdrank and outtalked his hosts in eight countries, and sparked a tremendous interest in doing business with Germany. Nothing defeats him. Says an associate: "As soon as he recognizes that he cannot get into a house through the front door, he is at the back quicker than the man inside can get there. If he finds both doors locked, he doesn't try to break the house down. He goes right on to the next house, and before you know it, he has dug a tunnel and got in through...
...Venusburg overlooking Bonn. Heading for his Bonn headquarters, he dictates speeches as he rides, often stops off at a local market to check prices personally. As the Mercedes 300 lurches up to the entrance in a swirl of dust, his driver tries to get out and open the door. But Erhard is already out, Homburg in hand and cigar in mouth, charging toward the ministry entrance like a soccer forward. He waves jovially to the doorkeeper, fairly skips up the steps and down the long hall to his desk...
...cease being among the world's forgotten peoples. Sometimes these policies are marked by a certain amount of doctrinaire thinking and preconceptions that are a hangover of a period when power and responsibility were denied to the sons of the soil. Insofar as foreign investment is concerned, the door is open, but it is true that no one waits at the door with open arms...
...Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting for God's autograph...