Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is my vindication," said Service. He posed for welcome-home photographs outside the door of the U.S. State Department. He had the same air of unconcerned aplomb with which he faced congressional investigators seven years ago; he showed no sign of bitterness or elation. Had he any second thoughts about the wisdom of the attitude he had adopted toward the Chinese Communists and the policies he had recommended? "No one is immune from making mistakes," he said, and added that history might yet show that the U.S. ought to have organized some sort of coalition between its allies...
...soon took a summer place there, bought El Creeps nine years ago last month. Last year he moved it lock, stock and flatbed press into a pink adobe hacienda. The new location greatly improved working conditions: staffers who like drinks served with the news can walk through a door from the city room directly into a bar presided over by the mayor of Taos...
...wondering when they would get together, the two entered on a war of nerves, each refusing to go to the other. Said Martin: "I wouldn't be so presumptuous as to see the Speaker on a subject like this. I'd be an interloper." Replied Rayburn: "My door is never locked. I'm always glad to see Mr. Martin or any other member of the House." How long would the waiting game go on? Grinned Joe Martin: "My kidneys are good...
Roused at 4:30 a.m. by a dog's yapping, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway poked his head out the door of his home near Havana, found a squad of soldiers scouring the bushes for an insurrecto, lent them a flashlight and went back to bed. Next morning Papa discovered his dog Machakos (breed: "Cuban") dead of a head wound, presumably inflicted with a rifle butt, stormed down to the local military post but got no explanation, mournfully listed the pooch "killed in action...
...Lutheran Church sent out for sandwiches. At 8:30 a rumpled young minister emerged to empty a piled-high wastebasket. At 9 130 another minister came out in his stocking feet, tieless and bleary-eyed. "They are still quibbling over two words," he said. Twenty-five minutes later the door opened again and the U.S.'s No. i Protestant churchman stood there, his 6-ft., 1½-in. frame a little more stooped than usual and his face a little paler...