Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bestseller of that era) when he chose it for his summer retreat. As F.D.R.'s son Elliott Roosevelt recalled, the camp at that time "looked more like a Marine training camp made up of rough pine cabins, but it suited Father down to the ground?metal bed, bathroom door that refused to shut tight, bare walls ornamented only with some of his favorite cartoons...
...that Pediatrician Margaret Nicholson recalled for the Hiss defense team that she encountered a heavyset, "very gruff man" at the Hiss home in January 1937. "You may not come in!" declared the man. Writes Weinstein: "From newspaper photographs in 1949, Dr. Nicholson recognized the man who had answered the door as Whittaker Chambers...
Much of the province's development dates from the early 1960s, when it underwent an expansion of education and state enterprises that French-speaking Quebecois call la Révolution Tranquille (the Quiet Revolution). With the door suddenly open to new opportunities, the church-oriented conservative rural habitant rapidly evolved into the secular, outgoing urban Quebecois, with typically North American tastes for big cars, color-television sets and le rock. Quebeckers trained in economics and sociology thronged into the glass-and-steel cubicles of a mushrooming provincial bureaucracy. But despite this rattrapage (catching up), English-speaking Canadians retained their dominant role...
Next to their end-of-the-world expectations and their refusal to accept blood transfusions, the Jehovah's Witnesses are most noted for their dogged door-to-door evangelism. For more than three decades, that has paid off with one of the steadiest records of growth in Western religion. Yet according to the Witnesses' new Yearbook, the number of active members in the U.S. dropped by 2.6% (to 530,374) for 1977, the first decrease since World War II. Worldwide, the Witnesses, who often suffer persecution overseas, declined by 1%. Besides that, the number of baptisms of new U.S. converts...
...turned away. Aspiring Starlet Sunny Leigh, who claims that club personnel kept her outside the inner sanctum "violently and with great force," is suing Studio 54 for a cool $13 million. Even Dallas Cowboy Defensive End Harvey Martin, the terror of the Super Bowl, was stopped at the door. Now that's selectivity. Or a death wish...