Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand through his sparse hair and grinned. "Hi, there," said Ike Eisenhower. "I'm sorry I'm not dressed." He shivered a minute in the near-freezing cold, glanced at the scarlet-coated Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who had just taken his post by the door. Then, with a friendly wave to the crowd, he retreated to the warmth of his private car. A few moments later the presidential train crossed the border and President Eisenhower began his two-day state visit to the Dominion...
...noncommittal. Red China and India would meet in Peking next month, at In dia's request, to discuss "outstanding matters in regard to Tibet." There was nothing in the wording to show Indians themselves that Prime Minister Nehru had grave complaints to lay at his neighbor's door. Among them...
...Bevanites were discussing their future at the home of one of them in Vincent Square. Giggling like schoolboys, they were all rounded up in the darkness of the respectable old square to await the strategic moment when they would swoop into the House of Commons by the back door and take Tory Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn by surprise. Swoop they did, just as the vote was held, to defeat the government forces by a majority of four...
...days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from his second floor window and landed safely in the garden of the French embassy next door dressed only in his underwear...
...sublet apartment on Manhattan's Sutton Place-a happy hunting ground for mink, the script says-and bait it with everything they've got, which is mostly cheesecake. Millionaires apparently like the bait as well as most fellows, and pretty soon they are wolfing away at the door. In the end, of course, the filthy lucre loses out to nice, clean sex, and everybody goes to bed instead of to Bergdorf's. But while it lasts, the gold rush is rowdy, irreverent, and sprinkled with belly laughs...