Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with this, Louis Kronenberger closed the door to his Eliot House suite, took my coat, and offered me a seat. "They've been awfully nice to me since I came, and I feel wonderful about being at Harvard and living here in Eliot. All I've found to complain of is an occasional student whistling at four in the morning, and at Harvard even the whistling seems to be good music...
Then there was a knock at the door and we welcomed the telephone-repair...
Snarled Government. While Castro was concentrating his energies on vengeance, government business got badly snarled. At the presidential palace, crowds of job-seekers and well-wishers milled about; their weapons had been methodically checked at the door with numbered metal tags. Devoid of political experience, President Manuel Urrutia, onetime judge, kept the Cabinet in all-night sessions, quibbling over petty details. "He might make a President in normal times," said one of his own assistants, "but these are not normal times." The treasury was still running on a hand-to-mouth basis, collecting $2,500,000 a day in taxes...
...vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole thing as grist for Communist propaganda, sent out a girl reporter to interrogate Murrow. The reporter tracked him to the very door of a CBS washroom, but got no information, was reduced to reporting about his red suspenders ("They're cute"). The Journal also came close to daring CBS to sue for libel by suggesting (so far without any supporting evidence) that the show had been a hoax, that actors...
...cannot afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money if it builds two or three generations of prototype models, learning from each stage. But the report offered a back-door approach to meeting Anderson's objection: the Government would "substantially" increase its applied research expenditures on civilian nuclear power, thus taking over more of the lab and engineering work from industry...