Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...
...Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets of sodium cyanide dropped into a crock of sulphuric acid beneath Abbott's chair. The deadly fumes began to rise...
...Open Door. To his people, Ramon Magsaysay, 49, was a kind of combination Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson, with none of their faults: a war hero and a man of peace. He was the President who had opened Malacanan Palace to the people. Palace corridors and reception rooms, once the preserve of suave politicians and their richly gowned ladies, were thronged with peasants or plantation workers bringing their troubles. Magsaysay listened to them...
Friendliness has become the distinguishing characteristic of the House. Some cliques exist, but most disappear or are discouraged from forming. At Dunster it is not uncommon to know the name of one's next-door neighbor. That sort of thing is encouraged, in fact...
Solicitations for the annual spring blood drive begin today at both Harvard and Radcliffe. Phillips Brooks House members will conduct a door-to-door campaign for pledges from now through next Friday...