Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a gigantic inferiority complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...
...letter-proceed calmly with their preparations, and the camera dispassionately watches every lethal detail. Gravely they draw on their rubber gloves. Delicately they decant the sulfuric acid. Tidily they bundle the little white eggs of cyanide into a sack of gauze. Politely they unroll the carpet from the cell door to the gas chamber. And so it goes, on and on and on, for almost 40 minutes-right to the bitter...
Last week Japanese security dealers opened a major campaign to attract more women investors. Some 6,000 salesmen began a door-to-door drive urging housewives to invest their husbands' winter salary bonuses-usually one to three months' pay-in stocks. Traditionally given in December, the bonuses used to go for rice wine, New Year's gifts and new clothes. Now a flood of mail urges Japanese wives to "multiply your huband's bonus wisely -in stocks. To become a millionairess is no longer an impossible dream...
...painter's patron offers to keep Gulley on a pension if only he will leave off the telephone calls. But the butler catches Gulley stealing a jade figurine from the patron's collection, so he is lucky to get out the kitchen door while the police are chasing round the parlor...
...into his apartment and starts to paint a wall he has taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation of their home-not to mention the wall, which looks as though it had been struck by an avalanche of garbage-and then sink quietly through a 6-ft. hole that somebody has carelessly knocked in the floor...