Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Bed. Armed with supreme self-confidence and an initial $350,000 appropriation, Kennedy sent his staff legmen into a dozen cities, headed west himself to tackle Teamster chieftains on their home grounds. One day in the west, he knocked at the door of a labor racketeer, was stopped at the doorstep by a suspicious wife...
...nose-bobbing for appearances' sake: "If as the patient comes in the door you can't take your eyes off the huge and distorted nose, then reduction is usually justified." But some people with normal noses have a "nasal complex"; no surgery can help them. "Such patients are usually sent by a psychiatrist. The best thing to do is to send them back; the psychiatrist has taken the easy way out by suggesting surgery to cure a nasal complex...
...Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Gist of the charges: Zwicker had "clearly lied" to the McCarthy investigations subcommittee about the circumstances leading to the promotion of Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized the New York Times: "The action is only the most recent indication of the contempt in which one Joseph R. McCarthy is rightly held by his colleagues...
...River Stay 'way from My Door, it is brother Ira's harum-scarum pal "V.R." who puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting...
Alan S. Novins '59, assistant band manager, charged that the cockroaches had crawled under the Union basement door into the neighboring Band office. He stressed that an exterminator for the Band's headquarters could not get at the source of the trouble...