Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election was moderated by Earl M. Kulp 2GB, chairman of the Election Committee. Kulp explained to the Young Republicans that the reason membership cards were being checked at the door was to prevent any election fights from "being splashed over the front page of the newspapers...
Monks said the main objection to the watchman by Claverly men had been for "aesthetic reason." They did not mind his presence in a place where he could see entering members, but disliked his position immediately in front of the door where "they always have...
...built a monumental stone fortress on a needle-top mountain-history's greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
...presidents went further. Hereafter, coaches will not be permitted to give advertising endorsements, e.g., Columbia's Lou Little may still smoke Lucky Strikes but not on magazine pages. As a final new measure, the Ivy presidents solemnly shut the eligibility door on any athlete whose precollege career was ever tainted by a subsidy: "No student entering after Sept. 1, 1953 shall be eligible whose secondary-school education was subsidized or whose post-college education is promised by an institution or group of individuals not closely related to the family...
...common sense until the audience is lulled in smiles. Then all at once the boat is rocking wildly in farcical white water. Item: Actress Ball, wearily trying to climb into bed with the trailer tipped sideways at a 30° angle, suddenly loses balance, reels against the outside door, does a back dive into a two-foot-deep puddle of rich brown mud. As she sits there, looking like a beauty-parlor victim whose facial has got out of hand, Desi appears and inquires mildly, "What's the matter, honey, can't you sleep...