Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions at the Tory candidate in London's teeming, pie-shaped North Lewisham constituency. But the candidate, a blacksmith's son who has become a prosperous manufacturer (structural steel), was kefauvering his way ("I'm Norman Farmer; I'd like to answer any questions . . .") from door to door, day after...
...then heard a dull, rolling sound from the end of the passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco, I am saved.' . . . The seminarists leapt out of bed and fled without knowing where to go . . . All had heard...
...sculpture, Death has come off far better than Taxes. But now in the big new Municipal Administration Building in Düsseldorf, West Germany, taxpayers have at last found a spokesman in 35-year-old Sculptor Max Kratz. Asked to design two door handles for the main doors through which Düsseldorf's Rhinelanders must pass to pay such local levies as dog taxes, school taxes and licensing fees, Sculptor Kratz "felt an irresistible urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand...
...with a pathetic whine why he always wants to sleep alone. "Look at me," she wails. "I'm a big fat cow." But she is furious when her husband does not contradict her. She is even madder when he chats at the fence with the girl next door. "You're carrying on with that-bffrllggrhaphut!" The next minute, overwhelmed by bacteriophobia, she starts scrubbing the kitchen floor for the fourth time that day. One morning her husband finds her sweeping the back alley. "Oh, Nick," she snivels with self-pity, "it takes so long to have a baby...
...Combined Charities Drive began its last door-to-door solicitation last night having collected only $3600 toward its $14,000 goal, Gregory B. Stone '58, drive chairman, announced last evening...