Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December some sixty students, after being checked off against a guest list at the door, heard Howard Fast speak in the off-campus Unitarian church. The meeting was again sponsored by the Young Progressives. The YP's discarded their original plan to hold the meeting on campus when the Lecture Committee did not receive the Progressive's petition in time...
...summing up his life with Rosa: i) he had served her breakfast in bed for 20 years; 2) she kicked him while he was scrubbing the floor; 3) she smashed her glass when he put water in her gin; 4) she accepted love letters and liquor from his next-door neighbor; 5) he was so terrified of her that he frequently slept on the floor -"an unpleasant experience in winter...
Probably the key nightmare the ancestor-worshipes struggle with is the problem if immigrants. The Daughters were quite put by the displaced persons problem following the war. The vision of an open door brought warnings that the United States couldn't risk "being overrun by European refugees who should stay at home...
Undergraduates can also take advantage of the cut-rate refreshments--first door on the right behind the main stairs, and all you can drink...
Looking for Hossain. Patiently cops plodded from door to door, looking up all the neighborhood Hossains, a job comparable to checking all the Joes on Chicago's South Side. When they came to the home of Politician Hossain Khatibi, once a prominent supporter of Mossadegh and now loudly in opposition, they were bothered by the heavy smell of perfume mixed with another, hard-to-place odor. Under questioning, the servants cracked: the other smell, which the perfume was intended to hide, was chloroform...