Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Finch was elected; he was lucky enough to come along at the right time. Finch would be easier to believe if he did not keep reminding poor whites of his stand with Ross Barnett, who is still liked by poor whites because he had stood in the schoolhouse door...
Despite early reports of two attackers speeding away in a car, nobody actually saw any gunmen. In fact, the only clue the police discovered was a spent .44 magnum cartridge. Investigators thought the shots might have been fired from an abandoned hotel across the street. A rear door of the hotel gives access to a parking lot, an easy escape route for a gunman...
...Haifa with his family reported seeing "a car standing on the other side of the highway and a body lying near by. Moments later," he said, "I saw a bus zigzagging toward our side of the highway. When we came close it stopped. Somebody came down from the front door of the bus with a submachine gun and shot at us. All the windows were smashed and the glass fell on us. My father shouted, 'Look at my arm!' I pushed him aside and took the wheel. He had a huge hole in his chest. My brother...
While he never breaches the privacy of his players' dressing room ("That's their home"), the door to Wootten's tiny, cluttered office is always open when there is trouble to be talked out. His kids, says Wootten, come to him with "every imaginable problem there is," from breaking up with a girlfriend to family troubles. Former players sometimes return to ask their old coach's advice about marital problems, or to seek help in finding a job. Says Bob Whitmore, who held Lew Alcindor to 16 points in the only game the New Yorker...
...bill, Mr. Multer writes, "leaves the door open for an official secrets act and unprecedented restrictions on the freedoms of speech and press." Sounds terrible, doesn't it? The only thing is that there is not a grain of truth in the statement. The bill as it passed the Senate contains no new provisions whatever relating to an "official secrets act." The only changes it makes in existing law in this area are liberalizing changes, for instance giving the press a new defense against contempt charges for violating judicial gag orders...