Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Churchill's car rolled up to the White House,President Eisenhower jogged down the five steps and said, "Hello, Winston." Sir Winston, with his eyes fixed downward on each of the marble stairs, began the ascent to the front door. When an outstretched hand came between the steps and his eyes, he looked up long enough to identify its owner as Mamie Eisenhower, and clasped it cordially. Photographs recorded what seemed...
...caught by the fellagha. One had his tongue cut off; the other was blinded in one eye with a lighted cigarette. On the morning of May 26 a family of colons named Bessede were surrounded in their isolated farmhouse. Two men of the family were shot down at the door, and the wife of one was raped. Two days later the same band of about 30 terrorists killed three more planters...
...office and demanded: "Have you got the morning paper?" For the next few seconds, the president rustled through the pages, finally came to a stop somewhere in the middle. Then, after some intensive reading, he handed the paper back. "Thanks a lot," said he, as he vanished out the door. "I just wanted to see how things were going with Smilin' Jack...
...jealous sister now has the secret weapon she wants. Before the next day is out. the first mother pounds on the schoolhouse door sputtering about "galloping consumption." Sick at heart, Nora takes to her bed half-convinced that the family curse has indeed caught up with her. And now the kindly village priest appears, trying to get Nora back on her feet...
...house of one of his friends was already in ashes, he reported, and his own was threatened. At 8 o'clock he exclaimed: "Thank God! The fire is extinguished, the third door from my house." Two days later a messenger arrived from Stockholm, confirming all details...