Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rosemary always sounds the way the pretty girls next door ought to sound. In the most sentimental of her hit records, Half as Much, her voice has an easy smoothness, an unsophisticated warmth. As she bounces along in Botch-a-Me, she adopts the tone of an earthy Italian mama, but her smile sings through as she gets the kiss she asks for. In Too Old to Cut the Mustard, a bit of hillbilly horseplay, she changes pace completely and sings raucous country alto to Marlene Dietrich's improbable baritone...
...Denver's Stapleton Airport, to embark on his long-promised big drive for the presidency. At Ike's insistence ("This is one thing I'm odd about"), the 20 members of his staff and 30 newsmen climbed aboard the plane first.* Then Ike swung through the door and the "Eisenhower Special" was off to Boise, Idaho...
...boss of Evita's Social Aid Foundation and her Women's Party (whose presidency he also assumed last week), Perón has been working harder than ever now that he is alone on the job. Each morning he arrives punctually at 6:25 at the door of the Casa Rosada and gives the captain of the guard a hearty handshake before entering the building. By 6:30 he is busy signing papers. Since his wife's death, he has made no public statement, attended no public function...
...Divorcement, she played John Barrymore's daughter. Barrymore soon took some of the starch out of her by inviting Kate to his dressing room and trying to seduce her. Kate retreated across the room, quavering: "There must be some mistake!" Barrymore grimly agreed and showed her the door. That nonsense over, they became friends. Kate remembers him warmly: "He never criticized me. He just shoved me into what I ought to do before the camera. He taught me all that could be poured into one greenhorn in that short time...
...barrel overseas, when they were billing their own sales to the U.S. at $1.43. According to FTC's report, this was done under a complex "basing point" price system which added "phantom freight" to the price of the oil. Thus, a Middle East buyer, next door to the producing wells, had to pay as if the Middle East Oil had been hauled from...