Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Locked Door. The conclave will begin Oct. 25, end only when a new Pope is chosen. By week's end it appeared that perhaps 50 of the 55 surviving members of the Sacred College (full strength: 70) would attend the conclave. Of the Iron Curtain cardinals, only Poland's Wyszynski seemed likely to come to Rome. Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, living in the American legation in Budapest, and Yugoslavia's Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, ailing and confined to his village, almost surely cannot attend. Other doubtful participants: France's Georges Cardinal Grente, 86, and Chile...
Before the conclave, Vatican masons and carpenters will have walled off all except one entrance to a huge area surrounding the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals, each accompanied by two nonvoting assistants, or conclavists, will file through the remaining door into the barricaded area. The marshal of the conclave, usually a Roman nobleman, will lock the door...
...eliminating the normal healthy exercise of walking. Appropriately, Directors Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 83, and Charles F. Kettering, 82, of General Motors, both proudly proclaim that they have never taken a lick of exercise in their lives. On level ground, the farthest they walk is from office or apartment door to car or from car to plane. Up and down, "Boss"' Kettering gets a fair amount of walking because he is too impatient to wait for elevators, walks up two floors and down three in offices and labs...
...Vagabond shut the door of his room behind him and fell onto the couch. He kicked off one shoe, listened to the thump with which it hit the floor, kicked off the other one, and listened to it thump...
...door to an escape from blobdom is left slightly ajar. For while oblivion is the goal, simple consciousness, and life itself, is against it. Mahood's last cry from his jar of sawdust is: "You must...