Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color of a hard-fought and genuine democratic election. Unity Front headquarters sent teams of three candidates (Communist, Peasant, Democrat), called "Troikas," galloping through the suburbs, while hundreds of larger teams descended on the provinces. In Lodz, Aeroclub planes dropped Unity Front leaflets, and Boy Scouts canvassed from door to door. In Warsaw there were two masked balls, with mazurkas and rock 'n' roll, under huge banners: "Remember October achievements when you vote...
...fact is that boredom pervades a good part of the delinquent's life. Walking through the federal housing projects in Neighborhood Four, one sees many boys sitting on the door-steps staring off into space for hour after hour. The same is true of the various street corner hangouts...
...these occasions, the student b becomes aware of the problem right the University's back door. But uproar quickly dies down, and remain interested long enough worry about a cure. Yet the astounding fact remains that no method of meeting the problem of juvenile delinquency has proved conclusively successfull in Cambridge...
...stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...
...Game Preserve. In Cleveland, cops surprised 40 men playing cards in an 8-by-10 ft. room, bagged two packs of cards and the 17 gamblers who couldn't squeeze past the door or dive through the window, later released their catch on insufficient evidence after they examined the cards, discovered they were printed in Spanish, decided it would be impossible to explain the game to the judge...