Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measured in millionths of seconds; temperatures approach those at the center of the sun. There is an empty feeling in the pit of the stomach when out of the stillness a great ball of light plunges into vision . . . a rush of heat, like the opening of a furnace door." The witness was obsessed by the horror of the explosion he had seen, and as the months passed, he grew to believe that if all men could see it, they would strive to avoid it, and peace would result...
...even finished his pudding when his date took his arm and suggested they leave. He ignored her scowl when he strode past the door which a girl was holding open for her friend. After bidding a farewell, he bid a hasty retreat to Hayes-Bick...
After a few more minutes of conversation, Vag joined the exodus toward the dining room. He gallantly held open the door for his date, and remained there while the rest of the dormitory took advantage of his gesture. Vag later located his girl at one of the eight tables in the pleasantly decorated room. Each girl was standing solemnly behind her chair. "Well, what now? Grace?" he said, trying to stimulate conversation...
...College Door. The most promising door opened for Funston in 1944, when Trinity College, its finances in poor shape, desperately needed a president who was a salesman, educator and administrator rolled into one. At 33, Funston became one of the youngest college presidents in the U.S., immediately took a leave of absence for a year and a half to serve in the Navy as a lieutenant commander working on contract termination. At one of his first faculty meetings on his return, Funston explained his credo: "Gentlemen, in order to be successful, you must look successful." He had the grounds landscaped...
...group, as a symbol, apparently, of what is wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable bromides in their modish cold-water flats. Garvey beats the avant-gardists at their own game. He loses a little finger slamming a car door and replaces the member with a mandarin's jeweled nail guard...