Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over things again. But the unexpected happened at long last: one of the girls talked. Ill, exhausted and unwanted after ten years' labor for the Messinas, 39-year-old Edna Kallman told the police that Attilio hired a maid to watch her, and to knock on her bedroom door if she spent more than ten minutes with a client. Once, when she complained of having to work daily, in sickness and in health, he shouted: "I'm tired of this! I could get a 17-year-old who would work harder than you, and I could sleep with...
...income or interest in another type of school keeps certain highly intelligent boys from swelling the number of applicants, is a fact likely to produce mixed emotions in the heart of an admissions director. It makes his job easier, that is certain, and keeps the IBM wolf from the door. At the same time, it raises doubts about equality of opportunity in the nation and of the Ivy League college's role as a melting pot of income and geographical groups...
...curve from hanging but deserved to be unscored on in each frame. In the second, Tom Johnson walked, moved along on a sacrifice and wild pitch, then beat Cook's pitch with a dramatic steal of home. A throwing error by third baseman Mo Balboni followed, opening the door for two more runs on a single and double...
...suit was brought by Klor's, Inc., a small San Francisco appliance store, against its next-door competitor, the big Broadway-Hale (19 stores), and ten appliance makers and eight distributors. Klor's charged that the manufacturers and distributors had conspired to deny it merchandise, except at extremely unfavorable terms, because of pressure brought by Broadway-Hale's using its monopolistic buying power. The defendants did not deny the boycott, but claimed that the public could still buy the same goods at many other San Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit...
Knock First, Sour Kraut, etc. In Hamburg, West Germany, after a rash of mysterious signs (small crosses, arrows) appeared on houses all over the city, police learned that they represented a secret code among door-to-door salesmen...