Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro paratrooper from Newport News, Va., was aboard the plane to check the static line and equipment and did not intend to jump. He stayed behind "yelling to everybody we had the long bell" until all jumpers were clear. When he looked out the door, he saw that the plane was only 150 feet from the earth. He was wearing a chute with a hand-operated ripcord. "I looked at the ground and I knew there was no one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three-that's what you count before you pull the cord-time...
Coolly, Arrington balanced in the doorway. "I pulled the ripcord in the door so the wind would snatch me out. The wind did." He went down face first, looking at the ground. When he was below the level of the treetops, he was still falling like a stone. The chute opened fully when he was only a few feet above the ground, so late that his feet were above his head when he hit. In a split second, the plane roared through the trees above him. slammed into the ground 50 yards away (killing an eight-point, 150-lb. buck...
...About 28 million "proletarians"-miners, factory workers, clerks and mechanics. A typical worker's home: one small bedsitting room (for a man, his wife and two children), with kitchen and toilet facilities shared with the next-door neighbor. The average worker's wage buys him an austerity diet of bread, fish and potatoes (fresh meat is a luxury), and such occasional relaxations as a ticket to a soccer match or a jugful of cheap vodka...
Just to the left of the fourth floor of the University Botanical Museum is a good-sized room with the name "Louis C. Bierweiler" printed on the door. At the far end of the room, placed end-wise between two large windows, is an oversized table. On this, beneath a hanging fluorescent light, is a raised platform 19 1/2 inches by 27 1/2 inches. Here Bierweiler works, and has worked for the past 53 years...
Critics of the honor system point to the many infractions that go unobserved as proof that the honor system primarily honors only the principle of expediency. The Radcliffe library is an oft-cited example. There is no attendant at the door to check for stealing; last year 209 books were taken. Library authorities have threatened to abolish this aspect of the honor system if the record does not improve this year...