Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawn. The passengers were Presidential Assistant Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons and Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos. Their briefcase cargo: an all-but-final draft of the 1959 State of the Union message incorporating changes that the President had ordered two days before. The President greeted them just inside the door, led them to his long, heated sun porch, where he had been working on a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. They spread out the papers on a coffee table, got down to a line-by-line discussion...
When Germany attacked Russia in 1941, nimble Joanovici became a Rumanian again by the simple process of buying back his papers from a Vichy French passport official. Later he declared himself a stateless person. Soon the Nazis were knocking at his door, not to arrest him, but to beg humbly for his help. Germany was short of scrap, and Joanovici could supply...
Emoto took his bride aboard an All Nippon Airways DC-3, put her in a front seat, himself took a seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time...
Roderick Day, a technician working in the next room, saw the flash, felt a slight shock, heard a slight noise, then a louder, rumbling one. He dashed into the tank room, saw that Kelley had run outdoors and collapsed a few feet from the door. "I'm burning up!" cried Kelley. Day carried him to a shower room, pulling some master switches on the way, and showered him with water. Then an ambulance took him to the hospital...
...Hustler has its faults as a novel, but opens the door on a world that books have not yet made commonplace. With his first novel, Walter Tevis (who teaches writing at the University of Kentucky) joins the company of such authors...