Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry S. Trumans seemed to be readjusting quickly to the existence of private citizens. At 7 one morning last week, Bess Truman stuck her head out the front door, hesitated, then started looking for her morning Kansas City Times. "They always throw it where you can't find it," said the former First Lady as she poked about in the shrubbery...
...those arrested are that lucky. Just before Christmas, a newspaperman having a couple of quick ones in a bar told a fellow patron: "I hear the President has been on a bat for nearly a week." He finished his drink and sauntered out the door into the arms of a waiting plainclothesman. At the station, without even bothering to question him, the police sent him straight to Las Heras penitentiary where he was issued the grey pants, jacket and cap of an Argentine convict and thrown into a cell. Seventeen days later, he was suddenly freed...
...only door inside the house is to the bedroom where George sleeps in a double bed and Babe in a single bed. She hates doors: "They clutter up the place." Scattered around the living room, bedroom and bathroom is a vast collection of tarnished trophies and medals, which, if melted down, would almost equal the combined weights of Babe and her hefty husband. "I've been meaning to put them under glass," Babe says...
...When I knocked at the door," recalls Carlos Rivera, 36, who supervises elementary Spanish in the El Paso public schools, "I repeated several times, 'Pase usted,' but I did not enter." The door led to a first-grade classroom filled with tots, few of whom spoke Spanish. They had been told only that their expected visitor "understands English, but does not speak it." The children soon grasped the meaning of Rivera's phrase ("Enter"), and repeated the invitation to come in. Rivera smiled and walked in with a greeting: "?Buenos dias...
During his first year of door-knocking, Rivera popped in on 25 first-grade classes, giving each 20 minutes, twice a week. The children soon eagerly awaited the visits of "el señor Rivera." Avoiding any appearance of "teaching," el señor concentrated on training his pupils' ears, getting his little hosts to think as well as speak in Spanish. With pictures or the actual objects involved, he engaged the children in increasingly fluent chats about such commonplaces as food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would...