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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fielder's Choice. In Mineola, N.Y., Construction Worker Dennis Smith vigorously denied that he had struck his wife, said: "All I did was pick her up and throw her out the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...this time Red has seen a great change in attitudes toward religion around the Square. In 1936, when he made his first call (to Wigglesworth), eyes peered furtively through a crack, and the door was hastily slammed. when Mr. Kellogg returned the next day, a number of people giggled at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth at him. Later, he discovered that the Wigglesworth man had been told that a sailor would appear at his door, dressed as a clergyman...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Le Rouge et Le Noir | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

...have been knocking at the Administration door all year," said Council President Edward M. Abramson '57, "but until now the time has not been right. Since the University is about to launch a $40 million all out fund raising campaign," he added, however, "the time now appears to be right...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Council Proposes New Student Activity Center | 5/8/1956 | See Source »

...same meeting, the Council voted 9 to 7 against a door-to-door fund drive, which was to be the final effort to save the expiring German Exchange Scholarship Program, and appropriated an estimated $400 to send four delegates to the National Students Association convention in Chicago this summer...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Council Proposes New Student Activity Center | 5/8/1956 | See Source »

...asked Edwin Roy Hamlett, 34, an auto salesman. "We're police officers," shouted Deputy Parks, and the door opened. "All right," rasped Parks, "where's it hidden?" Hamlett protested that he did not know what they were talking about. Reporter Cook, a high-school halfback who packs 210 lbs. into his 6 ft. 1 in. frame, took turns with Parks trying to cuff a confession about the robbery out of Hamlett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stop the Presses | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

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