Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York woman schoolteacher stopped me dead. When I asked her to give a map demonstration, she stood in a most awkward position, and I told her to move over to the other side. "I wouldn't dare to work myself into a corner so far away from the door," she said seriously . . . "First thing a woman teacher learns in our school is never to get too far away from the door...
...white-and-blue-tipped propellers stopped spinning, the door of the presidential plane Columbine opened, and a pretty young woman stepped forward. A moment later her husband, who had piloted the plane for 100 miles on the trip from New York to Washington, joined her. Then, arm in arm, the King and Queen of Greece walked down the ramp toward Secretary of State Dulles...
...staid Mt. Auburn St. relic of the Gold Coast days, whose distance from the Houses was reputedly equalled by its lax parietal rule checkup, now has only one main door, and by that door sits a little watchman...
Claverly's residents will now have to sign in and out all lady guests. They will have to abide by the regular parietal rules, and they will no longer have a side and a back door for use under unusual but pressing circumstances...
...thinking was like that of other dedicated Communists: the Revolution was final emancipation, and it could only be achieved through the party; whatever the party line said was so. Like others, Darke had casually checked his mind and doubts at the door. But since Marxist theology is both intricate and shifty, and the party demanding, many a well-meaning comrade came a cropper when faced with the gobbledygook that passes for dialectic...