Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four republics, two emperors, one consulate, one directorate and three monarchies. In the France of the peasant and the petit bourgeois, where the bell jangles on the shop door as the customer enters, there is a deep-seated "incivisme," an indifference to and distrust of any government at all. The designers of the Fourth Republic (1946) provided what France wanted: a legislative body with absolute control over any executive, however strong his personality, and an electoral system which made...
...chalet-type house near the street, was the chancellery, where lived Aurel Setu, nominally the chauffeur, but actually the secret police boss of the Communist legation. The leader of the masked men rang the bell at the chancellery. "Step inside," he said, when Madame Setu opened the door. They trussed Madame Setu in a chair, then began searching the place. In the cellar, as in all Communist secret police outposts, there was a small arsenal...
This is the first year the Drive will be conducted under one administration covering the College and all graduate schools in Cambridge, Dorsen said. With door-to-door solicitation he hopes to increase considerably the $17,000 total collected last year throughout the University...
...five U.S. correspondents in Moscow, the meeting last week of Russia's Supreme Soviet was a quiet story-until Chairman Volkov stepped forward and read Malenkov's resignation. Led by United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney. the newsmen bolted for the door, raced down four flights of stairs, and ran across three large Kremlin courtyards to their cars. While they scribbled notes, Russian chauffeurs sped them over the city's slush-covered streets to the Central Telegraph Office. Brodney got there first, put through a phone call to London and scored a clean 19-minute beat...
...respectable Indianapolis family while waiting for getaway money from a confederate. The situation is rich in all kinds of human and ironic and psychological possibilities. But in The Desperate Hours such aspects pretty much lurk in corners. It is excitement that is stationed at the front door, suspense that guards the back, and tension that sneaks looks through the window...