Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They knocked on Planas' door, calling out that it was the postman. When the door was opened, Polo's men, revolvers at the ready, burst into the room. The old-looking man, pale and trembling in a corner, offered no resistance...
...great stone mansion in Garden City, Safsaf was lonely. He asked to be helped into the Cadillac and driven to Mena House. There he rapped on Zouzou's door, saying, "It's me, Mustafa!" He rapped and rapped, but there was no answer. Sympathetic servants brought the old man a chair, and for another half hour Safsaf sat down and pounded in comfort...
...knocked on an apartment-house door in a dingy corner of Barcelona identified himself as the lampista, the man from the electric company. He entered, and inspected the meter in an apartment occupied by a thin woman and a bearded man who called himself Josè Planas. The lampista noted carefully that the apartment had no back door...
...Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death to the man who answered...
...once, the eldest daughter (Brenda de Banzie), a spinster of 30 winters, announces that she is going to wed the boothand from the cellar (John Mills), with or without father's permission. When father shows them the door, the two set up a rival shop and soon have most of the old man's business out of his pocket...