Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very first session, even their dutiful applause came in for criticism. As First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and the other big shots entered by a side door, they were greeted by a noisy standing ovation. Khrushchev strode to the microphone to say, "The Presidium has requested that the delegates not applaud every time we enter. Behave in the Communist way and show you are masters of this congress...
While ignoring the trend may appear ludicrous, it is all too natural. The tendency to call Harvard an educational institution and let education end at the classroom door is strong, especially when a partial solution for undergraduates has been found in the House system...
...little man in a yellow shirt stands at the door and hands patrons a card which reads: "I will not by my own free will or under duress reveal the ending of Diabolique." Don't sign...
...Birmingham finance company. A crowd of 300 had already gathered around the hall, suddenly began to chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped off to Bibb Graves Hall for Autherine's next class (children's literature). Autherine had to use a back door once again, but the crowd kept pelting the car with rocks, shouting...
...achieve the negative, heat is supplied by forcing air over hot-water pipes in the ceiling-in an earlier building the children tore ordinary radiators apart. Walls are lined with rugged tile up to a height of seven feet. Thermostats are covered by grills. Door hinges are made so that they cannot be dismantled. Beds, like other furniture, are of rugged, 1¼-in. oak. "We tried steel beds before," says Dr. Waggoner, "and they only lasted a few months...