Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revealed last week that the U.S. not only is arranging to sell Communist Poland farm surplus commodities (TIME, Jan. 14) but also will allow the Poles to purchase on credit. Wrote Ike to Gordon: the transactions "would ease economic difficulties of the Polish people," also "clearly reveal that the door remains open to a closer relationship" with the U.S. and other free nations...
...clock, one mild, foggy night last week, when a squad of cops deployed cautiously around an old, grey, lace-curtained house at 17 Fourth Street in the factory district of Waterbury, Conn. After the guards were set, plainclothesmen walked up the steps and pounded loudly on the front door. The downstairs lights winked on, and stocky, smiling, pajama-clad George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor, answered the knock. His two elderly spinster sisters watched warily in the background. George never lost his polite grin. "I think.'' he said after a few preliminary questions and answers. "I know...
...bayonets and prepared to charge the still-singing villagers. Suddenly the dancing stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers scattered. Some dashed into a hut and bolted the door. More shots followed. The hut's grass roof burst into flame, and as panicked villagers streamed out again, the police fired a few more rounds. When the last shot was fired, three more men and four women lay dead...
...anniversary, Gene gave me diamond earrings. The next month, a gold bracelet and a solid gold carryall. Third month, a race horse. Fourth, a five-carat diamond ring. Next, a diamond bracelet from Tiffany's. The sixth-month anniversary, there was a blue Cadillac Eldorado waiting outside the door." Later "anniversary" loot: fancy apartments in Manhattan and Venezuela, mink, more diamonds. Sighed Terry: "Gene made me give all my own jewelry to my mother because he wants everything I have to come from him! I'm so happy-that's why I'm so thin...
...PACKARD CLIPPER, out this week in two body styles, will have supercharged 275-h.p. Studebaker engine and automatic transmission as standard equipment. First Packard station wagon since 1950 is listed at $3,093, and four-door sedan...