Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. the pressures of Israel v. the Arabs were piling up menacingly. On Israel's behalf, public pressures were spreading through Congress all the way up through Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Fife Knowland to the White House door. Ike had come back from Georgia to press his step-by-step program. His next move: talk it out with top Senators and Representatives in secret session beginning the next...
...Tiger, and for hours that tiger was really loose; jitterbugging, rock 'n' rolling, the crowd poured it on. At length, in the early hours of the morning, the party and the liquor began to subside. Tired, rumpled and glassy-eyed, the guests found their way to the door. Last to leave: Senator Russ Long, his face glowing. Gazing around the room as waiters scooped up masses of cigarette butts, glasses and bottles, the boss of the Mardi Gras said: "Wonderful time, wonderful party...
...firemen noted that "furniture, clothing, flooring, and door-casing" were destroyed. One of the men remarked that "if it had not been for the sprinkler going off, probably the whole building would have gone." As usual, an entire engine company, consisting of three engines and two ladder trucks, was sent...
...light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
Sammy froths at the mouth when he is angry, attacks with equal greed girls on the make or spaghetti on the plate at Lindy's. Even his director hates him: "He walks as if the whole studio were a sewage system-and he has to reach the door without touching anything." But the director, and all the others around him, need Sammy more than he needs them...