Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winds whipped the dry snow into waist-high drifts around the little police station at the Austrian border town of Rechnitz. Inside, a policeman huddled close to a well-tended fire. Suddenly there was a knock, and the door slammed open to admit a wintry blast of air and a man with a baby in his arms. "Please," he muttered. "Out there. My wife. More women and children. More people." Then he fainted. The policeman cranked his old-fashioned telephone, muttered a few words. A siren wailed and within minutes the able-bodied men and women of Rechnitz were mobilized...
...excellent butler. Of course, I didn't know at the time that I was going to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. But that doesn't make any difference." But when Thorneycroft moves to the Chancellor's official residence at 11 Downing Street (next door to the Prime Minister's), Macleod will not go with him. Macleod is seeking another situation, explains Thorneycroft firmly; he has not been fired...
...anything more than a blank stare. Young (five years), small (102 boys), and inexpensive ($280), the school, in middle-class Chelsea, caters to the sons of professional and business men, with not a noble lord among them. But one day last week a black Ford pulled up to the door, and out jumped a chubby-cheeked new boy of eight. For England, this was big news indeed: His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland...
FORD'S NEW EDSEL will swing into production about July 1, go on sale in September. Car will blanket entire medium-price field with 18 models, including two-and four-door sedans, hardtops, station wagons, convertibles. Like competitor Buick, Edsel will sell in four different price classes. Names of Edsel models, from lowest-priced to highest: Ranger, Pacer, Corsair, Citation...
...Entreves was about to launch into a discourse on professors, students and not-mattering-much, but promptly at four o'clock he rose, put on his foulard muffler, expressed thanks for the interview, and departed. Halfway out of the door he turned, smiled his thin, winking smile, and apologized, "Tea, you know," and left...