Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other visitors at the hotel, along with passers-by from the Prudential Center next door, looked on the cavorting fans with a mixture of puzzlement and rancor. On Friday night, after a masquerade ball with disco decor, the fans--dressed up as characters from "Star Trek," "Star Wars," and their own imaginations--wandered about the hotel. They made a nice contrast with the other guests at the Sheraton, there for a Kiwanis Club convention...
...group of students trying to organize a chapter of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) at Harvard will begin a door-to-door petition drive tonight in an effort to obtain the approval of half the undergraduate student body, a provision that Massachusetts PIRG requires before a chapter can be established on a college campus...
...strategy of going door-to-door is to explain to people exactly what PIRG is; if we contact them, they'll respond favourably," Babic said...
After three days of debate, the Senators adjourned for a week-long recess; but before leaving Washington, they agreed to an unusual closed-door session next week to discuss charges that General Torrijos is involved in secret drug traffic. When the issue was raised by a treaty opponent, Robert Dole of Kansas, Fellow Republican Jacob Javits of New York argued that the point was meaningless. "We don't have to prove that Torrijos is an angel. I don't think he is ... What is important is whether the treaties are in the long-term interest of the United...
...alarm clock burrs, the bedroom curtains swing silently apart, the Venetian blinds snap up and the thermo stat boosts the heat to a cozy 70º. The percolator in the kitchen starts burbling; the back door opens to let out the dog. The TV set blinks on with the day 's first newscast: not your Today show humph-humph, but a selective rundown (ordered up the night before) of all the latest worldwide events affecting the economy ? legislative, political, monetary. After the news on TV comes the morning mail, from correspondents who have dictated their messages into the computer network...