Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five non-Communist countries knocked at U.N.'s door last week, hoping to get in. The five: Libya, Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos (the last three are more or less autonomous states formed from the former French colony of Indo-China). Ten of eleven Security Council members voted to admit all five. But Russia's Jacob Malik blackballed them by casting Soviet vetoes, Nos. 51 to 55 incl...
...this point the Carnagie-men suddenly changed their technique from sacharine to shock. Smiling grads went through the audience to take down names for a lottery on door prizes. When the names were collected, we learned that the prizes consisted of Carnagie's various books and that each winner would have to come up in front of the whole crowd. "Are your knees shaking?" asked the announcer suggestively. "Is your heart pounding? Palms sweating? Are butterflies beating around in your stomache?" "God" a man next to me said," I don't need a free book, I need a drink...
This tactic, bullying people who admittedly felt timid and inferior, backfired quickly. Several men actually left the hall, and when the announcer asked for enrollments in the course only a scattering of hands went up. But the Carnagie-men refused to give up. They filed out the door, all the lights went out, and a movie called By Jupiter flashed on a screen in front of us. This film illustrated the technique of manipulationship with a frankness that the speakers had not shown...
...probably know who we are," said 26-year-old Joseph Nolen of Woodbine, Ky. "We're not going to hurt you-we just want your house for a day. If you do what we tell you, nobody will be hurt." As Nolen pushed open the back door, his brother Ballard, 22, and Elmer Schuer, 21, of Chicago appeared from behind a trellis, pointing shotguns at Mrs. Hill. When the men had searched the house from cellar to attic, Mrs. Hill asked them if they would like some breakfast. "Yes, we'd appreciate it," replied Joseph politely. She fixed...
...little Hans, he had become something of a tease himself. His victim: a young towhead by the name of Tűrauf, which Hans thinks is howlingly funny. Tűrauf means "Open the door...