Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miserable, sleeting Washington morning last week, a telephone alert went out through the White House. Presidential Secretary Ann Whitman glanced around her desk to make certain everything was ready; ushers and doormen snapped to attention. Down in an elevator from his living quarters, out through a rear door and across the Rose Garden to his office in the west wing came Dwight Eisenhower. The President of the U.S. was working back into a full-time schedule-and hardly had he sat down at his desk than the babble of speculation about his political intentions grew even louder...
...noting schedules and shipments of money. He learned exactly where the big money was stored, went over every foot of the establishment after closing hours. Under the noses of lax Brink's watchmen, he and his henchmen padded about the place in stocking feet, learning which way each door swung, locating the main vaults, honing their strategy. In their exacting research, the gang broke into a burglar-alarm company one night, and carefully studied the Brink's alarm system. Every lock barrel on every door along their route through the Brink's building was removed...
...four-barrel carburetors and a 9:1 compression ratio, the 300B engine is rated at 340 h.p., 40 h.p. more than last year, making it the highest-powered production-line model in the industry. Price: $3,997. The Fury, which uses basically the same shell as the two-door Plymouth hardtop, but is an inch lower and has a 240 h.p. V-8 engine, instead of the regular 200 h.p. engine...
...Soto Adventurer, a low-slung two-door hardtop which will develop 320 h.p. against the standard 255 h.p. Chrysler's other entry of the week: an experimental two-door station wagon, the Plainsman, featuring a rear "observation car" seat, facing backwards, so that its two passengers see not where the car is going, but where it has been...
...Victim. In Clinton, Tenn., returning from the kitchen, Waitress Pearl Hogue spotted a would-be thief as he stuck his hand in the cash register, flung a cup of coffee in his face, sent him scurrying out the door as she bounced the pot off his head...