Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open-Door Policy. To make the presentation on military manpower problems (see below), Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess held the floor. A Democrat leaned over to the President to ask who Burgess was. Quipped Ike: "He's one of those 'damned Democrats for Eisenhower' from South Carolina." Despite this jolting news, the Democrats agreed to go along in principle with Ike's manpower proposals. In his turn, Harold Stassen dragged out a set of charts to disprove the idea in some Senators' minds that his program approached the order of magnitude of a "Marshall...
...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...
...wolf was still haunting Disney's door. Production costs on cartoons were rising so fast that they gobbled up the profit as it came in. Walt turned to another source of income. With funds blocked in Britain, he made four live-action features between 1950 and 1953: Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Sword and the Rose, Rob Roy. They were all amazingly good in the same way. Each struck exactly the right note of wonder and make-believe. The mood of them all was lightsome, modest. Nobody was trying to make a great picture. The settings, in the British...
When Clinton D. McKinnon, a successful San Diego publisher and businessman, bought the debt-ridden Los Angeles Daily News a year ago, he cheerily admitted that his main objective was to "push the undertaker away from the door." The task was harder than McKinnon realized. In Los Angeles, where five dailies battle for circulation, former Democratic Congressman McKinnon hoped to win readers with the only paper that "reflected the policies of the Democratic Party." But this week the undertaker came in the door...
Polarity. In Nipigon, Ont., Corporal Ted Broughton of the Provincial Police was wakened by the sound of breaking glass, saw an arm thrust through the broken front-door panel of his home, yanked in and arrested Robert Stevens, 31, for breaking and entering. In Castaic, Calif., Frank Joseph Nemcek, 23, serving a one-year term for robbery, escaped from the jail, walked out to the highway, had the misfortune to hitch a ride from Deputy Sheriff Walter M. Doughty, who was on his way to work at the jail...