Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extraordinary narrative. My olfactory nerves tingled with the stench of Calcutta; the malignity and frustration were outside my own door. Man dreams to conquer the space about him; yet he cannot provide an abode in which his kind can live well and die decently...
...Dubin, 39, highly paid director of NBC-TV's Twenty-One quiz show and a summer replacement, The Investigator, denied current membership in the Communist Party, but refused to say whether he was a member before May 8, the day the committee first questioned him in a closed-door session. NBC promptly dumped Director Dubin as "unacceptable...
...became the World's publisher on his father's death in 1911, Swope knocked out a few partitions to make himself a suitably imposing office, brought in the first rugs ever seen on the twelfth floor of the World building on Park Row, and hung on the door a brand-new title of his own devising: Executive Editor...
Bernstein had started out with a few doubts: "I was worried because a strange conductor always has more pull with the orchestra, and I was just the boy next door they'd known for years." But Lennie and the orchestra hit it off. With programs of Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven, larded with easily digestible Ravel and Gershwin and spiced with occasional contemporary works, the tour was a hit from the start...
...remaining 79 years of his life, Calouste Gulbenkian caught precious few glimpses of gutters, particularly since in young manhood he developed the habit of sprinting from a rented limousine to the door of his destination in morbid fear of assassination. As he became a legendary oil financier and fabled art collector, Gulbenkian also kept on collecting what he most loved: money. When he died in 1955. his five-shilling piece had grown to an estimated $420 million, his annual income to $14 million...