Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lodging-house apartment, Fehlauer quickly laid his wife down and slammed the door in the soldiers' faces. A neighbor, hearing angry Russian voices, called the West Berlin police. A patrol car swung into the Edelhofdamm, and out leaped Patrolman Herbert Bauer, his Browning drawn. The Russians took cover behind an oak tree outside the apartment house. One of the Russians dropped Bauer with four submachine gun slugs. Over his dead body that Christmas morning, police and Russians fought for 20 minutes until the carbines of the West's riot squad drove the Russians back into their own zone...
...said, 'The guy just stepped into the door and must have realized what it was about and he tried to get out. He almost got out.' He said, 'It's a lucky thing I was there. If I wasn't there, he would have got away. I grabbed him and mugged him . . . and he started to fight and he tried to break the mug, and that's when he scratched me. But he didn't get away...
...office of Pérez Jiménez' Minister of Government. After a two-hour session during which Villalba stoutly refused to commit U.R.D. assembly members against a boycott until after a party convention in January, secret police seized the six men at the minister's door, held them incommunicado overnight, and next morning shipped them by government plane to Panama. Handed their passports in mid-air by the pilot, the U.R.D. leaders were dumped at Panama without money, a change of clothes or even their toothbrushes. Protesting this "fascist stratagem," Villalba bitterly refused to predict that U.R.D...
...marriage dying piecemeal from a sort of emotional anemia. The picture is at its best when it owes least to the stage play-in James Wong Howe's evocatively drab photography, and in such scenes of slack and silence as when Lola stands entranced at the kitchen door watching Terry and her athlete boy friend...
Fabrics for Refrigerators. International Harvester's new Decorator Model refrigerators will have fabric-covered doors designed to: 1) eliminate the chipping of enamel or porcelain door finishes; 2) let the housewife match her refrigerator with her kitchen decor. The changeable washable fabrics will be available in a variety of patterns, with window curtains to match...