Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours later, all was ready. The bathers were in the tub, and a crowd of admirers was pressed around Photographer Launois. Suddenly the door was pulled open, and an old man, shouting fiercely, ordered him to take down his equipment. "He was gesturing wildly," reported Launois, "and barking in the old samurai style which I had only heard in the movies before." The village chief tried to convince the old man that Launois' motives were dignified, but he had no success. Finally, when the bathers became frightened by the commotion and departed for home, the old man himself undressed...
...steady solvency (U.S. tax revenues for fiscal 1958: $166 million), a dedicated interest in government (average turnout at the polls: 90% v. 60% mainland presidential peak), the fabled land of polysyllabic kings, brown-skinned women and languorous beauty-supercharged with its brilliant mosaic of cultures-has now opened the door on a new epoch for itself...
...lessons in an aluminum mock-up car. "I was frightened when we drove into the water," he said afterward. "The teacher told me to press my head against the roof of the car and look for the bubble of air. 'Don't struggle to open a door,' my teacher said. 'If you do that, you have a fair chance of dying. Press your head against the roof and wait...
...Then he saw that the water had stopped rising, and a small pocket of air remained at the roof of the car. This was the magic moment of the bubble-when the pressure on the inside of the car equaled that on the outside. Kliphuis slowly turned the door handle, which now opened easily, shot through the opening and surfaced. "You have to persuade the pupils to wait for the bubble and not panic," explained Teacher Herman Vos. "That's all there...
...over now, and Ernesto had married. Although Enzo himself was not married to Vincenzina, he was outraged by her confession, took her home to her family. Vincenzina's father was shamed, ordered her out of the house, and draped black cloth over his front door...