Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invited to the palace a crackpot from California who numbered among his friends men from Mars, Venus and other solar-system suburbs. Both court and Cabinet pleaded, but the Queen would not be budged. "A hostess," said she in refusing to cancel the audience, "cannot slam the door in the face of her guests...
This, thought Bob, was not the sum that had been Bandied about. So that noon, on his introductory show, he waited until the other station people had left, then locked one door, jammed a desk and filing cabinet against the other. On his turntable he placed a song called Only the Shadow Knows, which he had been warned was loathed by President Dorsey. For eight hours well-barricaded Disk Jockey Bandy played Only the Shadow Knows, interrupting it occasionally to comment heatedly on how he had been had. Citizens of Davenport smuggled in hamburgers and soft drinks...
...evidence to be used against the householder in a criminal case without due process of law. "Giving the fullest scope to this constitutional right to privacy, its protection cannot be here invoked . . . No evidence for criminal prosecution is sought to be seized . . . Here was no midnight knock on the door but an orderly visit in the middle of the afternoon . . . Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places . . . is of indispensable importance to the maintenance of community health, a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards for a search...
Behind the Door. Pipe-smoking President Betancourt disappears behind his padded office door in Miraflores Palace before 8 a.m., sees some 60 visitors a day. His time is largely devoted to a nightmarish array of white elephants left behind by the dictatorship. Items: an unfinished $450 million steel works, gathering rust in the Orinoco jungle, a chain of showpiece hotels, 300 colorful apartment buildings, some of them 15 stones high, in Caracas. By official count, 90% of the apartment tenants refuse to pay rent...
...fool he has been: Luisa is pregnant, and they have nowhere to go. In desperation, Natale decides to build one of the "abusive dwellings"-one-room squatter shacks-that spring up overnight on empty lots in Rome, and may not legally be torn down if they have a door and a roof by the time the police arrive in the morning. The rest of the picture describes the young couple's struggle to acquire by criminal conspiracy what De Sica obviously feels to be theirs by natural right: a roof over their heads...