Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architrusty. In Florence, Ariz., J. J. Isbell was locked up in the city jail, soon noticed that the hinges on his cell door had been put on on the inside, pulled out the pins, pushed over the door and walked...
Theologians do have a difficult time explaining hell. How well I know-being raised a Catholic. It wasn't until I was contacted by a Jehovah's Witness at my door that I had all my questions answered and proved from the Bible...
...they had done before and were to do time and time again. For more than 200 years the house, now known as No. 10 Downing Street, has been one of the most unsuitable and yet tenacious of all government buildings. It is a house with only a front door, and Commonwealth ministers sometimes arrive as tradesmen leave...
From a conversation he overheard in the mess hall, he knew that the Dutch air force C-47 standing outside was about to take off for Australia. He tried to sneak aboard but found the plane door locked. As he circled the plane, looking for a place to hide, he spotted the two nacelle cavities that house the big wheels when the plane is in flight. He climbed up, crouched among the upper struts of one of the cavities and, praying he would not be discovered, waited for the takeoff...
...Dauphinot left Kidder in 1946 and formed Deltec S.A. in Rio de Janeiro. Initial capitalization: about $2,500. His first deal was to sell a 15,000,000 cruzeiro ($750,000) stock issue for an American & Foreign Power Co. subsidiary. With a sales crew of 25, Dauphinot began a door-to-door selling campaign. But after six months, only about half the issue had been sold, and all but one salesman had quit. The undaunted survivor, Paulo Quartin, son of a Brazilian diplomat, doggedly kept at the job and succeeded, by year's end, in selling the remainder...