Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reached for the door handle, a youth, apparently stationed as a lookout, fled from the front of the car. Dellera spotted a partner lying on the front seat, rifling the glove compartment. Quickly pinning him under the flexible front seat of the coupe, Dellera reached for his 30-30 hunting rifle, which was lying on the back seat...
...Lamont can remain both a first-class library during regular hours, and a welcome if not glorified study hall afterwards. Checkout Desk Three could be manned by a smaller staff after 10, and the Desk One door could be closed at that hour. Similarly, there is no need to staff the Poetry Room after regular hours, so personnel costs could be cut further. Such a study hall system could even be extended to Sundays during the entire year...
...more emphatically (through the NATO all-for-one agreement). Mendès-France seemed to be insisting on controls unacceptable to Germany. Adenauer's demands for all-at-once concessions were unacceptable to an aroused France. But neither, in Anthony Eden's view, had closed the door. He calculated optimistically-but perhaps not too much so-that theirs were bargaining terms, not final ones...
...Milford, Del. one day last week, Principal M. A. Glasmire marched up to the door of his high school, and while the chief of police looked on, solemnly tacked up a sign: "CLOSED Until Further Notice." Milford's two public schools were shut last week, for the town had never been in quite so ugly a mood. There were mass meetings, telephoned threats, promises of violence-all because eleven Negro students had been admitted to the high school along with 665 whites...
...Norman, pastor of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church and chaplain of the wing, called for prayer, and the heads bowed in silence. "Thy will be done . . . Thy will be done . . ." prayed Chaplain Von Norman to himself. Two minutes later, while the burning plane banked, he stood at the open door and began sending the sky pilots off into the air, one by one, with a slap on the rear and an occasional shove...