Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manchudini. In Taipei, Formosa, when police came to investigate reports of the fraudulent activities of Yang Yung-wei, Yang politely asked them to be seated, and-when they were comfortably settled-stepped quickly out of the room, locking the door behind...
Nasser's Voice of the Arabs raged that Kassem was an apostate whose followers had torn up the Koran outside his office door shouting: "Death to Arab nationalism, death to Islam!" Nasser, who hitherto has hesitated to make a jihad, or holy war, against his Arab enemies, now invoked this highly charged cry against the Kassem regime and its atheist Communist comrades. (Use of such dangerous religious passions for political purposes may be effective against the Reds, but it also upsets Lebanese Christians and other non-Islamic Arabs...
Windows in a car and a bus were smashed before town police showed up, roughly packed the hooting collegians back into their dormitories-then, in an uncommon breach of the Geneva Convention for such affairs, followed the students inside and broke down a door to arrest undergraduate wrongdoers. Police bag: 24 wet-handed scholars...
...with a threat as foreboding from within as from without. Young Anne wakes from a nightmare with terrified screams; greedy old Van Daan. whose wife and teen-age son share the flat with the Franks, tries to steal a crust of the communal bread; the dentist bolts for the door when the phone in the deserted office below jangles noisily. Yet no one cracks so completely that the cement of their absolute dependence on one another cannot repair the damage...
Last week Manhattan's oldest fur store had a new owner. Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp., which already operates 60-year-old Bonwit Teller next door and nearby 121-year-old Tiffany & Co., added Gunther-Jaeckel, Inc. to its string. In taking control of Gunther-Jaeckel, Hoving got more of the kind of elegant tradition he likes, also a challenge to his merchandising skill (Gunther-Jaeckel last paid a dividend in 1945). But fellow merchants figured he would soon figure out a way to fit Gunther-Jaeckel into his spreading operation. Pursuing a policy of aggressive expansion...