Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolationist, who had been sweet-talked into running and promised a $150,000 campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...
...kingdom ruled by King Lion much has recently been said about opening the door for criticism. This is disconcerting-not for those who criticize (they for the most part are irresponsible creatures), but for the responsible officials. Open the door-why not? But who will have the strength to slam it when the time comes...
...people with a deep distrust of paper currency. As a result, there was a run on the bank almost as soon as it opened. The new manager ordered the guards to open the vaults and fill large sacks with silver coins. Then he slipped them out the back door with instructions to march in the front door, through the bank, out the back door and in the front again. After two or three of these trips the frantic depositors got the desired idea: the bank's hard-money reserves were obviously inexhaustible; their money was safe and their panic...
Near Cumberland, Md., Captain Tappe received an unusual order: he and Co-pilot Robert S. Hurley were to wait in the cockpit after landing at Pittsburgh until the senior agent knocked at the door. There was no explanation. Capital had alerted Dr. Allison J. Berlin to meet the plane at Pittsburgh, and he had already conferred by phone with Virus Expert Jonas Salk, who was at a meeting in New York City. Salk's advice: give each member of the crew, and the baggage smashers in Baltimore and Washington, a double dose of gamma globulin and a dose...
...well-padded bottom ("It don't hurt your hand and it don't mark the kid"). But Robin went right on playing. When he couldn't talk one of his three brothers into playing catch, he would prop an old mattress against the garage door and fire away for hours at a hole in the middle. All the while, the braying porch radio kept him up to date on Chicago Cubs ball games. "If people knew what I thought about pitching," says Roberts now, "they'd think I was nuts. They make it so complicated. They...