Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repatriated prisoner of war, I was attached to the Philadelphia Naval Hospital for a short period following World War II. I was given the job of mustering Marine sentries in front of the office door of the hospital's commandant. These young lads-were allowed to sit on a chair, and each one served a four-hour stretch every other...
...blustery winter, a well-known admiral turned into the hospital with a slight touch of the flu. Being a high-ranking officer, he also rated a Marine sentry. One mid-April afternoon, when one sentry was supposed to be on the job in front of the admiral's door, the chair was unoccupied and remained that way for the rest of the day. It seems that the admiral had invited the sentry to accompany him to the opening game of the major-league baseball season, providing his car, cigars and box seats for the occasion. "Bull" Halsey...
Imperiled Health. At the White House two days later, the President met with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough and five other top steelmen for half an hour, then with McDonald and three other United Steelworkers officials for about 20 minutes. At the closed-door meetings, said Press Secretary James Hagerty, Ike "did most of the talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling...
Utrecht sailed on to Boston, thence toward New York. At 6:55 on the last night out, Nita Spector knocked on the door of Cabin 7, called Lynn for dinner. The secretary replied that she was not feeling well. A steward knocked again at 7:05; he heard only quiet sobbing and left. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Spector returned to Lynn's cabin with the Utrecht purser. The cabin was empty, and Lynn Kauffman was not again seen alive...
...could be more surprised than Bo. except perhaps the reader, when a quiet English girl named Daphne Poole takes him to her Cambridge flat and locks the door. Bo and Daph make beautiful movie music together, scored for "storms of feeling, extraordinary furnace fires, bottomless spasms, tender places, changes, quiets." After Buzz crudely tries to seduce her. it is Daphne who alerts Bo to his hero's lies, bluster and twisted bravery-"the courage that wants to be alone, that really wants death for all.'' On The Body's final mission, Buzz keeps his neurotic rendezvous...