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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since the 101st Airborne Division arrived on Wednesday, paratroopers carried their rifles without bayonets attached. Inside the school building, guards wore fatigues instead of battle dress, and only one soldier escorted the nine Negroes to the door of the school...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Arkansas Livestock Fair Opens in Quiet Capital | 10/1/1957 | See Source »

...four-seat version of Bavarian Motor Works' two-seater Isetta. The Plexiglas front still opens up to admit the driver and front passenger. The two back passengers enter by a new narrow door in the right rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Buy-Eyed Over Bugs | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Born to War. Much has been made of the dramatic spectacle of the bold monk lustily hammering his propositions to the church door and challenging all and sundry to debate them with him; but, as Durant points out, the truth is more ordinary. The door of Wittenberg's Castle Church was used by clerics as a notice board on which they pinned invitations to debates and news of what would now be called "coming attractions." When Luther posted his theses in 1517, he had no notion that the coming attraction would be history's fiercest spiritual drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Age of Flame | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Tactical Diversion. In Rochester, after Charles Chiarenza was awakened by loud pounding on the kitchen door of his ground-floor apartment, sleepily groped for the light, investigated and found no one there, he returned to the bedroom just in time to see-but not to stop-a hand reach through the window, snatch his trousers and wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...next day he tries to sell the saddle cinches his wife has woven; the patron will not buy. He tries to sell his turkey; the patron throws the bird out the door. Desperate, man and wife sit down by the roadside, and he tells her he must go away. Somewhere there must be work to do-or things to steal. In silence she suckles the child. His face softens. The spring of life is flowing still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Roots | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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