Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentiment, humor or mercy. "In Ulbricht," wrote a commentator who found some redeeming features in other German Communists, is "only the worst." Another once described him thus: "Ulbricht is the kind of man who wants to enter a house which is guarded by a policeman at the front door, then decides it is easier to go in by the back door. He first begs a slice of bread, then seduces the maid, cleans out the refrigerator, works his way into the master bedroom, steals the owner's clothes, and then strides through the house to the front door...
...door of the U.S. Senate chamber opened one afternoon last week, and a guest was ushered in. Harry S. Truman, tanned and eupeptic, not quite as trim and natty as he used to be (he no longer has a personal valet), beamed as Senators and visitors broke into applause...
...Taft, the ailing majority leader. The two shook hands, smiled and chatted. Then Truman was ushered to the rear-row seat he occupied for ten years as a Senator. He made a little speech, remarked that he always liked the seat, because it was so close to the door and he could duck out when the going got hot. After his speech, Truman shook hands all around and moved ahead on his visitors' schedule. When a Washington Star cartoon showed him standing outside the White House fence with camera in hand, Tourist Truman said: "Well, I'd rather...
Said Christie: "I gassed the three women whose bodies were found in the alcove by getting them to sit in a deck chair in the kitchen between the table and the door. There is a gas pipe on the wall next to the window that at one time had been used for a gas bracket. The pipe had been plugged. I took the plug out and pushed a piece of rubber tubing over the pipe. I put a chink in the tube with a bulldog clip to stop the gas escaping. When they sat in the deck chair with...
Insomniac. In Phoenix, after drilling through the door of the Parkway drugstore, a burglar passed up money and other valuables, chose three bottles of sleeping pills, disappeared into the night...