Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jingoism got a big lift when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump...
...swung open the door, the girl reached into her handbag and pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it with both hands ("I was afraid I would miss," she explained later), she opened fire. Last week, on trial for murder in Naples, she defiantly declared: "I would do it again!" With that, the whole courtroom burst into cheers...
...addition, each room will be equipped with a new weather-stripped door with a built-in "automatic door-closer." Sound-proofed walls and recessed bookshelves are also among the projected improvements...
...frontiers" abroad were subjected to a peaceful economic expansions, an "anti-colonial commercial imperialism." To this was added--especially under Wilson and the two Roosevelts--a sense of moral mission, an "imperialism of idealism." The result was a policy of the Open Door, freedom and even protection for American business interests abroad. And the foreign "frontier" was wastefully ravaged much as the resources of the American West were depleted before conservation. American economic power was relied upon to "make the world safe for democracy" (safe, Williams says, for America...
Williams' analysis applies quite neat-nations. In respect to Russian-American affairs, however, his thesis seems to break down. He attributes the responsibility for the deterioration of East-West relations more to the American Open Door policy than to Soviet machinations and seriously underestimates Russian expansive tendencies. It is at best only half-true to accuse American leaders of attempting to "force the Soviet Union to accept America's traditional conception of itself and the world. And to say that "in every case but one, Russia retreated from these efforts [at territorial aggrandizement] in the face of America's vigorous...