Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...venison and ice-cold vodka, and a second night in their lavish quarters at the baroque 17th century Wilanow Palace outside Warsaw, the Carters flew to Tehran. When Air Force One rolled to a stop at Mehrabad Airport, Carter was the first person to pop out of the door, his tan trenchcoat and slightly disheveled appearance contrasting a bit with the regal elegance of his host, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. On the way to the city, they drove along roads that were lined with more security men than well-wishers. Only a few hours earlier there had been five anti...
...kind of involvement. The singer ate with the inmates and, ignoring the unwritten prison law of segregation, passed from one racial group to another with dignity and ease. Said he: "I come in the name of Jesus. Wash me in your precious blood as I open the door of my heart and receive you as my Lord and Saviour...
Whether through seduction and marriage or just plain old-fashioned bribery, the practice of illicitly cadging products and favors is called tsou-hou-men, or going through the back door. It is prevalent in every part of the country, from the poorest rural communes to the most luxurious compounds reserved for the elite. In the countryside, for example, peasants are allowed only two bars of bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative...
Even that most valued of commodities, permission to leave China for good, is available by tsou-hou-men. One teacher, sent to do manual labor on a commune after the Cultural Revolution, tried in vain to leave China by the front door. Last year he got out by the back, after appealing to a former student who had been put in charge of approving exit visas. Success stories of this kind have given rise to a popular new proverb in China: "When a man knows the way, even chickens and dogs can go to heaven...
Recently the Union Juvenil Hispana of Cambridge Rindge Latin School sponsored a tund-raising dance at the Santo Cristo Club on Cambridge Street which featured a Dominican band, the Conjunto Imperio Latino, door prizes, and lots of dancing. Such events are much more than mere moneymakers...