Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beauty is only skin deep, and a step inside Lamont will confirm that. Walk up to the door--no, no one will push the door into you, it's all glass, and you can see for miles in every direction. Why, there's one little girl who sits right by the door behind a counter, aiming her taut cashmere sweater...
...precisely 9:32 p.m., sometimes a few seconds later, the gentle tones of a battery of diesel locomotive horns waft among the grinding multitude, and a tall man strides through blowing taps between two blades of grass. He's pretty good. As you walk out the door a girl frisks you with her eyes, to see if you're stealing any books. They've got to be careful; one guy last year started sewing pages of Gibbon's Decline and Fall in his topcoat lining, and he had sent the first volume to the bindery and was half way through...
...able to get the top job for himself. While he was Vice President, Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, was indicted for murder, skipped to Georgia, returned to preside over the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, made a moving farewell address to the Senate and slammed the door when he walked...
...Ararat, the West's defenses end-and Soviet opportunity begins. An offensive rolling through Iran and on to Iraq 120 miles away might easily overrun the West's advanced air bases at Habbaniya (Iraq) and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). It might also outflank Turkey and open the back door to Europe...
They were drafted for the most part because local boards thought it unjust that Johnny Jones down the next-door neighbor was entering his third year of draft-exempt graduate study. And the drafting will continue until Selective Service leaders outline a uniform, nationwide policy on exemptions. Local boards will argue that the immediate injustice done to Johnny Jones and his family outweighs the long-range national benefits of highly trained scientists. England, mindful of the critical need for advanced scientific talent, gives its graduate students blanket deferments...