Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hebrew, the fourth letter, Daleth is written Ψ. The Assyrian Daltu meant "door," or "jaws," the Greek Delta meant "mouth" of a river; the Hebrew Dal meant "door," "bucket," or "to draw water," the Assyrian Dalu meant "to draw water," and Dilutu meant "a bucket." The Luna constellation consisted of three stars arranged in a triangle, which could easily have taken the shape of both Daleth and Delta...
...China's need for Manchuria's industrial production. There was no hint of the long American recognition of China's independence as the key to stability in Asia. Stalin, in the imperialist tradition of the czars, remembered Port Arthur; Roosevelt forgot John Hay and the Open Door...
...Becque with rakish zest (in rust-red plantation suit, blue-and-white-striped shirt, solid beige tie). And Mary Martin's sawed-off dungarees were curvaceously filled by Actress Marta Santa-Olalla. Although she sported the short-clipped Martin hairdo, she lacked something of the girl-next-door appeal...
...Designer's description: "Silk tulle over silk brocade trimmed in little crystals and French flowers." The dress contains 215 yards of material, took ten seamstresses several weeks to put together. Studio carpenters had to cut a double door in Actress Caron's dressing room to make room for the hoops...
...Other Escape. In Castlemaine, Australia, police hunted the cool thief who broke into the city jail, swiped the jailer's keys, backed his car up to the window of the jailer's office, heisted a 204-lb. safe containing $300, then carefully closed the door in the jail's main gate behind him before he drove...