Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Athletics has granted a reprieve to all students unable to fill their football ticket applications on Monday. The reddish brown application chutes to the right of the H.A.A. door on 60 Boylston St. will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. today...
...acceptable. Although the poem is not inspired, it is well-turned, with a pleasing repetition of phrase structures. Both of Robert Johnston's two offerings are well-conceived, but their execution is sometimes muddled by clumsy syntax and a rather loose use of diction. Through the thoughts of a door-to-door salesman who feels guilty for having "sold knives to the women of levittown," Peter Heliczer protests against the impersonality of modern life. The salesman, however, expresses this protest so melodramatically and with such inordinate sensitivity, that it all seems incredible. Heliczer may have intended an entirely different meaning...
...cells in his prison, Rickett continued with a faint smile, had wooden doors, and the guards sometimes forgot to lock them. "Most of us would shout to the guards to come and lock the doors, and they appreciated it. But there was a fellow next to me who would not behave himself. One day he tried to kick his door down, and the guard just came and said to him, 'Now what do you think that solves,' and locked it and left him alone. And that's the way it was. It's a matter...
Hasty Exit. The guests were, however, reminded of their party's recent ill fortunes by the unusual performance of Richard Graves, last year's unsuccessful nominee for governor of California. Soon after the dinner began, Graves breezed in through a side door. When the crowd applauded, Graves beamed, nodded, waved, and proceeded to the head table, where he had not been invited to sit. He made his way down its length, shaking each and every right hand, until, near the end of his tour, he slipped, tried desperately to balance himself, failed, and jammed his arm through...
FORDS FOR '56 will be lower (down 1 in. for two-and four-door sedans), and higher-powered but little changed in appearance. Higher-priced models will have the Thunderbird Y-8 motor (up to 202 h.p.). Thunderbird production has topped 16,000 in its first year, 25% more than Ford anticipated, but still less than demand...