Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reach from "floor to ceiling." As an observer to this incident, I can report that it stood about 4 ft. high, and had a mushroomlike shape and a jellylike motion. The most fun came when ex-House President Tom Stix tried to maneuver it through his 30-in. door. With success almost in sight, the skin of the tightly squeezed object suddenly vanished, leaving the mountain of water standing for an instant in his doorway...
...Revolt of the Admirals: In 1948 he became Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Organizational Research and Policy, head of the controversial Operation 23, which prepared the Navy case against the B-36 and carried on a devious back-door campaign with newspapermen and politicians against the Administration policy of priority for air power. In 1949, when Burke's name came up for promotion to rear admiral, President Truman punitively crossed it off the list, later restored it when Admiral Forrest Sherman and press took up the issue...
...shoes, whirled outdoors and thrown alive up a tree. Barber Henry Norris went to bed, woke up unhurt in the street: "I don't know how I got there." Will Sweet and his wife cowered in a back bedroom until it was over, then opened the door and found the rest of the house gone. Norman Lanning huddled with his wife and three children a gainst the kitchen wall by the refrigerator, which skidded away; the wall was the only thing left standing in the area, and it saved them. "Oh, God," said Lanning. "How lucky we were...
...that time she already had plans for a school of her own. To raise money, she baked sweet potato pies and sold them from door to door. She peddled fried fish, sang in local hotels. She borrowed a shack, collected boxes for furniture, squeezed elderberries for ink. used charcoal slivers for pencils. When the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute opened, its student body was five girls...
...intention to tell how a youngster from the provinces lands in London, much as he himself did. Before the boy sets out for the big city, he daydreams about what it will be like. He sees himself knocking at a rooming house and an Irish girl appearing at the door...