Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revolving Door. After a great deal of rushing about and whispering, Majority Leader Knowland made a motion for a ten-day adjournment to give McCarthy time enough to recover. Some Democrats protested that the long delay was not necessary; they viewed it as a trick to delay censure action until the Democratic 84th Congress takes over. Oregon's Wayne Morse told how he had made nine speeches in 1951 with his broken jaw still wired. New York's Lehman told how he had campaigned with a fractured leg. Finally, however, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen spoke...
Said Dirksen: "We could send to Joe McCarthy a note, this afternoon, in which we could say to him, 'Joe, we are going to have the Senate take a recess from day to day; we are going to be here to catch you the minute the revolving door of that hospital lets you out into the world.' That would be a healing sentiment, would it not, Mr. President...
...Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial to do except hide in the back seat of a roadster-and he did that badly. To many viewers, after such a drumbeat of ecstatic praises, it seemed only fair that the door on one of the new cars didn't open...
Although Lennox warned that he would continue to crack down on any Ontario promoters out to fleece investors by mail or telephone, it looked to Wall Streeters as if the door might be blowing open again...
...those who had refused to sign got up from the dining table where he had been watching the proceedings and strode quickly over to the door. Placing himself four fact from the card table, he crossed his arms, moved his head from side to side, and forthwith started a tirade against "Fifth Amendment Communists" who were opposed to "the greatest blessing sent to America by God since Theodore Roosevelt...