Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slam enough doors in a man's face, and he may break one of them down," said San Francisco's Negro Deputy City Attorney R. J. Reynolds last week. The way to reduce the percentage of Negro crime, he believes, is to stop slamming the doors, or at least, as a start, give the Negro a new hope that maybe the next door won't be slammed. Spreading the message of that new hope, he says, is a responsibility that Negro leaders will be very glad to assume...
Frightened, Cheryl fled to the kitchen, headed for her mother's room with a knife. "I walked toward the bedroom door," said Lana. "He was right behind me. And I opened it and my daughter came in. I swear it was so fast, I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach ... I never saw a blade...
...with a foot in the door, the Russians next asked for a trade pact and consular agreement. Again under political pressure at home, Adenauer sent his bargainers back to the table. Last week in Moscow, after nine months of sparring, the Soviets and West Germans announced a new agreement. Once again the Soviets appeared to have got more than they gave...
...wintry morning "Kitty" was late. Over seven minutes late. Someone cantiously said, "All out," but nobody moved. Finally, one brave soul ventured towards the door, and soon the class began to file downstairs from Harvard 6, the site of English 2 for many years. Suddenly, one of the leaders shouted from downstairs, "Here he is!" There was a mad scramble to return to the room, but "Kitty" was on the platform before all were settled. "When I was an undergraduate in this College," he bellowed, "by thunder we never went back for a professor." He then proceeded to deliver...
...statement of the Committee on General Education concerning mathematical preparation implies that Harvard should also require no specific mathematics requirement for graduation. This closed door policy evoked by the Committee is indeed unfortunate in modern times when an understanding of the present goals of science is intimately tied up with the powerful concept of the calculus--discovered by Newton over 300 years...