Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downtown streets were whitewashed to keep late (and often unsteady) pedestrians from tripping over them. An early Portland matron startled the populace with a carriage robe made of the breast feathers of 144 canvasback ducks. And Portland's pioneer St. Charles Hotel boasted a lock on every door and a hand-knitted wrapper on every chamber...
With the swearing in of the Prime Minister (who also assumed the posts of Defense, Finance and External Affairs), the Federation was in business-and already beset by disquieting signs of the racial clash it was supposed to forestall. Fearful that Federation would open the door to a flood of land-grabbing whites, Nyasaland's African tribes were kicking up trouble (TIME, Sept. 14). Last week angry crowds assaulted some of Sir Godfrey's Nyasaland tax collectors and chased some of the pro-Federation tribal chieftains into the bush. Beyond the crocodile-infested Shire River, a white district...
...Freedomites had a particular reason for demonstrating at the schoolhouse door. In last spring's election campaign, when government policy toward the Freedomites was an issue, Attorney General Robert...
John X's Treatment. John X was shown to a room very much like one in a small residential hotel. There was no lock on his door, though John X noted with annoyance that the nurse had used a key to open the door from the elevator bank to his landing: he was on one of the hospital's most closely supervised floors. Next, like all new patients at Payne Whitney, John got a thorough physical checkup. Meanwhile, the outline of John's case had been discussed at a staff meeting...
...Roman Catholic Church in Peru. The apostolic vicar for the jungle area, Monsignor Buenaventura Uriarte, boomed: "Townsend's institute is engaged in an active and purposeful campaign to convert our jungle Indians to evangelistic Protestantism." Methodist Townsend, a member of Los Angeles' Church of the Open Door, vigorously denied any sectarianism, but the cry was taken up by the conservative press in Lima. For a while, it looked as if Townsend's good works were...