Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental floss, an all-expense, two-week vacation trip to Youngstown, Ohio, one brand-new screen door (together with 200 flies...
...delivery teams come up against many an unforeseen crisis. One night a team raced to a grimy cottage to find a young Italian woman about to have her first child. She was screaming with pain; worse, her husband's nerves had cracked. Brandishing a pistol, he locked the door, announced that he would kill the doctors unless the baby was delivered safely by midnight. Wasting no time in argument, the team got on with the job and delivered twin boys well before the deadline. Looking from the bed, the doctor found that the father had fainted...
...Locked Door. Carefully and laboriously over two seasons, Perrot uncovered the Horite village. All the rooms were deep underground, reached by vertical shafts about ten feet long with steps and handholds cut in the hard dirt. Each oval habitation, some 20 feet long, was connected with others by long tunnels. Most extraordinary thing about the Horite dwellings was that they were completely furnished. The entrances were blocked up with stones (the ancient equivalent of locking the door), but everything was in as perfect order as if the inhabitants had just stepped out after tidying up after dinner. Perrot does...
...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work-and much more-in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business. The hobbyists, who trudge out of stores with boards balanced on their shoulders, have also added a new phrase to retail jargon...
...make wallpaper with glue on the back, and all you do is dip the stuff in water and roll it on." Bernstein soon bought himself a $12.75 home-carpentry set and nailed up a shelf. "Did a good job, too." In quick order, he reversed a bothersome living-room door, made a plywood table for his son's electric-train set, laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom-no trouble laying it down." Last week ex-Lounger Bernstein was busy building a brick walk for his backyard...