Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to Hong Kong a few months ago: "You people outside always pity us for our short rations, dirty rice and scanty clothing. I tell you that's nothing compared to the nameless fear and suspense one suffers from each time the Household policeman knocks on the door...
...prearranged signal, a Moslem sentry on duty let him and a handful of the rebels into the courtyard. A Moslem sergeant and corporal emerged stealthily from one of the huts and greeted him. Each set up a machine gun and trained it on the door of the hut where the Europeans lay sleeping. Abd el Krim stole into another hut, shot the French commander and his top sergeant dead in their beds. Wakened by the noise, the other soldiers jumped up, grabbed their rifles. The two Moslem noncoms mowed them down in the doorway. Before relief could arrive, the rebels...
Next morning one of the prisoners managed to open a window and climb out. When the guards soon afterwards opened the door to the hell hole, 194 were dead inside...
Last week, after a long series of protests, foreign correspondents finally got a foot in the door. For the first time since Japan regained its independence, they attended the regular press conference of the Foreign Minister, now Mamoru Shigemitsu. In addition, the government supported the Foreign Correspondents Club in its campaign for equal access to the news...
...week's end new and powerful voices were raised for ending the restrictions. Twenty of Japan's top newsmen called the closed door "impermissible," promised their cooperation to open it. Clubs would have to be cracked one by one, but the pressure...