Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area between Santos Dumont Airport and the Air Ministry. (Our office building stands in majestic isolation between the two.) José and Paulo were in the office when machine guns began rattling and bullets started thudding into the walls. Paulo and José rushed out the back door of the building, stumbled over the body of a boy who had just been killed. They saw a police patrol headed for the building and quietly slipped away. It was no time to get mixed up with the police. Minutes later the building was sealed and swamped with investigating policemen...
...Vargas speak of death, but then his words were the sort to move men: "I offer my life in the holocaust. I choose this means to be with you always. When they humiliate you, you will feel my soul suffering at your side. When hunger beats at.your door, you will feel inside you the energy to fight for yourselves and your children . . . Each drop of my blood will be an immortal call to your conscience...
...long as Damon Sr. stayed at home, the house rule was: "Don't upset Father." The children were warned away until Runyon had gone through the groans and mutters of the painful rising at noon. He would then fling open his bedroom door and announce: "I'm up!" Runyon's education of his son consisted in handing down first principles of conduct, e.g., "Never give a sucker an even break," "All horse players die broke," "How to live with women: Don't." On turning away from the dice table at Saratoga, where he had dropped...
...Medal Books, paperbound; 25?). When Robert Neville's wife finally died in 1975, he refused to carry her body to the huge, burning pit into which other victims of the mysterious disease had been dumped. Instead, he buried her secretly. That night there was a fumbling at his door: it was his wife, come back to drink his blood. For she. like the others, had become a vampire. This embarrassing domestic crisis (he eventually drives a stake through her heart) is only one of the milder episodes in I Am Legend. Every night the vampires gather outside Neville...
Escape Hatch. In Portland, Ore., chased by police as he wove down the sidewalk on his motorcycle, James V. Garvey tried to get away by veering into a bar, was caught when the handle bars proved too narrow for the saloon door...