Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated 47 years ago. Her childhood was spent in a succession of Florida and Georgia cracker shanties, in dreary sawmill towns at the dead ends of Tobacco Road. Her dresses were flour sacks, and she got her first shoes when she was eight. Starvation was always lurking outside the door, and Jackie ate mostly what she could steal or scrounge. She learned to read from the signs on railroad boxcars, went to work in a cotton mill when she was eight (she had been a midwife before that). At eleven, she left home to work in a beauty parlor...
...Radio Pictures, announced a $15 million deal with C & C Super Corp., which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package may now be rented to TV stations for immediate screening across the nation, with General Teleradio getting exclusive rights to the movies in the six communities where it runs...
...wanted to carry him out the window but he was too heavy and I just couldn't get the leverage. I don't remember how long it was before I started to feel myself slipping, and I just barely made it to the door," he said...
...leader, he demanded bitterly, after the party had rejected him; how could he "face the jeers of the Tories?" Nearly overcome, he turned to Gaitskell and asked: "May I be permitted to leave this meeting?" Head bowed, he stepped down from the platform and made his way to the door. Moved by a single impulse, every Laborite rose to his feet and stood in silence-as if at a funeral. Outside, Morrison brushed blindly through a crowd of waiting reporters and disappeared into the shadows of the lobby...
...divorce from former Navy Lieut. Commander Charles B. Day, 63, charged that he logged her comings and goings, made her spend her vacation "swabbing the decks" to pass inspection, would not let her enter his den without permission when red, white and blue pennants were displayed outside the door...