Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good look at him. All his life he has served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious men approached the Soviet throne room...
...India and peace." At that point the weary policemen's arms gave out, and the welcoming crowd roared across the airstrip, trampling men, women and children in their enthusiastic rush to get closer to the great man. Hastily abandoning his speech, Nehru prudently retreated out a back door of the hangar...
Though Dr. Wilson slammed the door, he did not bolt it. "We are hoping," he went on, "to modify the Salk vaccine in such a way that the highly virulent strains of which it is composed [meaning especially the Mahoney strain] will be replaced by less virulent strains...
...ways to exclude the worst of her mixed elements: she bars her ivory tower to poor MacDougal (symbol of Scotch commerce), spends hours doting on a road runner bird (symbol of the Old Spanish Southwest) in the pet department at Woolworth's (23rd Street branch). She opens her door to a bevy of characters as split-and-mixed as herself; they spin poetic stories in a troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world...
Piercing the hollow, curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...