Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shouts and cheers of half a million Washingtonians faded behind Ike Eisenhower as he stepped inside the door of the executive wing of the White House last week for his conference with Harry Truman. "Good morning, folks," said Ike cheerily to the newsmen and White House employees who packed the big executive lobby. Official Receptionist Bill Simmons shouldered into view to shake Ike's hand. "I imagine you're rather tired," said Bill. "No," said Ike, "this hasn't been such a hard...
...Rachel White, who regularly packed his lunches while he was governor, once repaid him for morning grouchiness by filling his sandwiches with laundry soap. On another occasion, Adams objected to Rachel's driving the family car to morning-coffee sessions with neighboring housewives, padlocked the garage door. His wife entered the garage through a side door, rocked the car back & forth until she pushed the front doors off their hinges. The Adamses have three daughters, a son and three grandchildren. Views his new job not so much as troubleshooting (principal occupation of Harry Truman's Assistant...
...brown eyes still kindle in the ashes of her face at the mention of her "ghosts." This small empress in exile from her time has lived with them for most of her life. For her they are alive. And it is entirely conceivable that if one day her door should open, bringing a visitor named J. S. Bach into her instrument-cluttered, timeless room, Wanda Landowska would not so much as lift her bird's-wing eyebrows in surprise. She would probably continue the conversation she has been having with him across the strings for the past half-century...
...wife. "Mark and I room together . . . There I will be in the bed beside him, weary unto death, dying for sleep, and Mark will be flipping the pages of [magazines] . . . right in my face, until long past midnight. [Next morning] I am waked by him slamming the front door with all his might, trooping up the stairs, tearing the wrapper from around the [morning] paper and squashing it into a ball, then hopping back into the bed to rattle and to read until sunup. Of course, I'm wide awake by this time; but he only gives...
Protective Custody. In Milwaukee, Burglar Robert Jahn went out on a job, sprained his ankle jumping in an office building window, cut his wrist breaking a glass door, telephoned police for help...