Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finds the rough-and-tumble of politics a noisy bore. Once, during a particularly tedious Cabinet session, he murmured something about having to leave "for urgent reasons," went to a side door of the Casa Rosada and hailed a taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta...
...present job as Navy coach too much to quit. "I never know my youngsters until they come down to the boathouse to try out for the crew," he told his old logging pals. "And some of them prove to have no more rhythm than a knot in an outhouse door. But if you like to work with young men, as I do, you can't help but want to stay with them...
LOWEST-PRICED U.S. CAR of standard size will be Studebaker-Packard's new "Scotsman," which will go on sale this fall. Prices, including heater, defroster, excise taxes, delivery: $1,776 for two-door sedan, $1,995 for two-door station wagon...
Both hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...
...Penny Earned. In Hartford, Conn., a burglar quietly broke the glass in the front door of the Eastern Automotive Co., skillfully disconnected the alarm, forced open the empty cash register, desperately ripped open the sales-tax container and cleaned...