Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aiding the rebels in Indo-China in a war that is killing many French people and causing much suffering in France," said he. "France cannot ignore this. As long as this situation lasts, we cannot meet with the Chinese People's Republic." But he did not shut the door all the way. "If the facts should change, of course, France could then reconsider the position...
...warning came in the pages of Ecclesia, official journal of Spanish Catholic Action and the only magazine in Spain not censored by the government. Ecclesia listed some of the causes of the Spanish worker's "aloofness from the church," as reflected in a door-to-door survey conducted by priest-advisers to the government-sponsored unions...
Concluded Ecclesia in a follow-up editorial: let Spain "beware of a comfortable attitude of complacency toward brilliant processions and of indulging in the rash assumption that law and the police are enough to check silent storms, well-founded discontent and rampant social injustice." Next door in Portugal, a bishop raised the same warning cry last week. In a pastoral letter published in Lisbon's Roman Catholic daily, Novidados, Bishop Jose do Patrocinio Dias of Beja called upon both government and private charity to come to the aid of the poverty-stricken rural workers whose numbers were "not decreasing...
Polyglot See. The principal entrance to the grounds of Istanbul's patriarchate is a door that is never opened. Before it, in 1822 the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregorius V was hanged on the orders of Sultan Mahmoud II, who accused him of conspiring with the Greeks in a revolt against the Ottoman Empire. For generations, the Closed Door was an Orthodox shrine to the ancient enmity. Under Athenagoras, the door is still closed, but now, as an Orthodox official recently explained: "The Closed Door is a memorial for a dead Patriarch, not a reminder of the way he died...
...Second Tree does have more than enough individual masterpieces. For my money, the six-page piece entitled "The Door" is worth considerably more than three dollars all by itself. Another--a page and a half in length--is a perfect example of White's extraordinary genius. It concerns a woman who was convicted of "disorderliness"--she was found sleeping in two empty cartons in a hallway, wearing all the clothes she possessed, although she was gainfully employed and owned a reasonably fat bank account...