Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Hall closed his door to virtually everybody and worried about tapped telephone lines, Docking played the genial host. He put signs outside his office: "Come right in. The doors are closed only in the interest of efficient air conditioning." He made himself available to politicos, welcomed daily press conferences (and set up a coffeemaker for newsmen in his office suite), would interrupt almost any affair of state to have his picture taken with plain folks, who came in steady streams to pay their respects...
...limited number of guest cards have been distributed to Dartmouth undergraduates who have invited guests from other colleges. One of these cards must be presented at the door of every fraternity and dormitory in order to gain admittance...
...Lieut. General James Gavin concluded his closed-door testimony before the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee one day last week, Chairman Lyndon Johnson scribbled out a press statement summarizing the testimony and handed it to Gavin. Old Soldier Gavin hurriedly looked it over and okayed it. With that began Round Two of the extraordinary story of Jim Gavin's proffered resignation from the U.S. Army (TIME...
...neutralized Europe next door to Soviet land power, said Acheson, would be incapable of 1) building up confidence and economic health or 2) fending off Russian conquest by infiltration. "In many, perhaps most cases, an attack by Soviet forces faced with only token resistance would not be necessary, as it was not in Czechoslovakia in 1948 or in Poland today. Soviet purposes could be accomplished by intimidation, with the lesson of Hungary in everyone's mind. Can one doubt that, were it not for the American connection, there would be no more independent life in Western Europe than there...
Sweepstakes. In Detroit, three thieves robbed a grocery of beer, wine and assorted meats, realized they would leave tracks in the snow, took a broom from a rack and carefully erased their footprints as they went, were caught anyway by police, who simply followed broom marks to the right door...