Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that, General Eisenhower strode toward the door of the conference room, grabbed the knob, flung the door open and stalked out, his back set like a fixed bayonet. As he left, the SHAPE staff-Americans and Europeans alike-broke into applause and then began to cheer. The door reopened. Eisenhower stood there, smiling. He bowed slightly and closed the door again. After that, there was no doubt about who was in charge...
Harlow hurried to the door and called Wepman in to witness his triumph. The elder Fraden, still conscious, looked up at the newcomer and asked, "Who are you?'' Neither youth bothered to answer him. Harlow reached for the vial of cyanide, knelt carefully, and poured more poison into his father's mouth. The partners in crime stayed on for more than an hour to make sure the parents were dead. Then they put the third champagne glass into a paper sack, broke it, and departed, dropping the fragments into a sewer on their way. Two days later...
...family would realize $75,000 this year for operating half a dozen smalltime charities. Another admitted he had posed as a priest and a policeman in telephone soliciting. In The Bronx, six "nuns" in rented habits and their self-styled "bishop" were arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns on behalf of themselves. A commonplace practice is to inundate the mails with cheap ballpoint pens (the D.A.V. mailed 32 million in one year), punch cards, nail files, copies of the Lord's Prayer and other unrequested items, accompanied by a "remit or return" demand...
...nothing more humiliating than to discover that one has been a fool, used for someone's questionable purposes and then tossed aside like an old shoe . . . We would wish to be certain that you are fully aware of the consequences . . . Your mistakes will be at your own door, your future, if it becomes dark and unrewarding, will have been of your own making." The letter made no threats, gave no promises...
...their church's inherited wealth, few of the people of the parish wheel up to the church door in Cadillacs. They come by subway from Brooklyn and by 5? ferry from Staten Island. They journey by bus down Broadway, or from Jersey City through the mephitic Hudson Tubes. And those Manhattanites who can walk to Trinity's six chapels live for the most part in cold-water flats and housing developments, or in slums...