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Word: doored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfect, but I thought I would do it down where it would be easy to skip. Be it known then, that an orchestra would have been, if practicable, preferable to two pianos; that all the singers could not always be depended on to produce beautiful tone; and that the door at the left side of the house is a clumsy place for performers to make entrances...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Yeomen of the Guard | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

...Harvard Ski Club will sponsor "Revolution in Skiing," a movie depicting American and European slalom and downhill stars in action, tonight at 8 in the New Lecture Hall. Tickets for the film, which is narrated by Victor Coty, are $1.25 at the Coop or at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Present Show To Aid Varsity Team | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

...would like to join "an eventual federation," but was careful to add that this "will certainly not be easy." Poor Togoland could all too easily end up as a Ghana province, and some of its politicians do not like the sounds of Nkrumah's roughshod rule next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Happy Impulse, Second Thoughts | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Though Mexico is next door to the U.S., though millions of U.S. citizens have seen it themselves, the country south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive 165 ft. into a surging wave at Acapulco. It is violent: the plump señora in the cartoon scolds her sombreroed husband as he cleans his pistol, saying "Oh, Pablo, you're not going back into politics!" In the cities it has modern hotels, traffic jams, skyscrapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...reached the mediation stage, he and his arbitrators were ready, willing and prolabor. Once, after a long wrangle with a group of representatives of management, López Mateos tapped his finger on the table for attention. "Gentlemen," he said. "Perhaps you did not notice the sign over the door. It says Secretary of Labor. I am here to represent labor." In six years López Mateos' office handled 62,191 disputes, let only 13 grow into strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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