Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...units would leave within three months. Financial aid would cease, and Guinea's exports (coffee, bananas, bauxite) would be subject to the same stiff tariffs as those of other foreign countries. As the French tricolor vanished from the land, Touré began to hope that, having slammed the door, he would not find it irrevocably locked behind him. He hailed France as "a friend and generous brother," called for economic negotiations. Though some Frenchmen wanted to teach Touré a lesson, others counseled the dangers of driving him to appeal to Nasser or his old Marxist masters for help...
Spain is still a dictatorship, but not so severely as it once was. It is more prosperous than it used to be-though still the poorest nation in Western Europe, outside its next-door neighbor Portugal, where a fellow dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, is Franco's only senior in office...
...That suave, ivy league fraternity gentleman who pounds on your door Monday night may be pounding on your posterior before long.... Ask him if his is one of the large number of houses that are transformed into a prehistoric cave during that week. Let him tell you about the activities "which develop brotherhood." Let him tell you about the raw eggs that will be dropped into your mouth, about the pigly, nude races you will have, about the days you will be forced to remain awake...
...lock on the Band Room door was evidently tampered with," commented Trottenberg; "however, it may very well have been an eager Band member trying to get his instrument." "There is no tangible evidence of arson," Trottenberg emphasized...
Neighbor Hood. In Redondo Beach Calif., Leo D. Burr left a note on his door reading, "Make yourself at home-the key's under the mat," returned to find that a thief had taken two rifles, an adding machine, a typewriter, a sewing machine, a piggy bank...