Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet about-face was one more sign that Joseph Stalin's successors are capable of a surprising indecisiveness in foreign affairs. Just a month before, the Communists slammed the door on a four-power conference, then suddenly opened it again, clumsily recovering their grip on the doorknob...
Abstraction. In Seattle, John E. Trimmer told police that he had bolted his apartment door, put $40 in a sock, put the sock on his foot and crawled into bed, next morning woke up to find the sock still on his foot, the $40 missing...
Life with Mother. In Milwaukee, Rudolph H. Kroetz got a divorce after he charged that his wife Helen had 1) started a fire in his bedroom when he refused to get up at 2 a.m. to talk to her, 2) slammed a door in his face, shattering the glass, 3) broken a bottle over his head...
Much as Vag liked the flowers, he was dismayed because he couldn't keep up with the rest of the party. The executive and his secretary kept disappearing around corners looking for new exhibits, and the father was over near the door with the little boy, boxing the child's ears. Although he was afraid to ask, Vag wondered just what the glass flowers had to do with education at Harvard. But the tour people had said this was an educational trip, and that was enough...
...study undisturbed until 12:00 midnight every week night. And, though Lamont officials claim these extended hours would be disastrous financially, Princeton has found little extra expense. The Nassau equivalent of Desk Three is closed at 10 p.m. So that only the expense of a checker at the door adds to operating costs. These extra few dollars are well justified by the increased convenience to students. And while Lamont can point to the House libraries which are open until midnight, during the exam period they are overcrowded. There is also a great nuisance value in dragging books from Lamont...