Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commercial hustle is back, but factional mistrust remains It happened slowly at first, but in Beirut these days the scene is almost a daily occurrence. A Lebanese merchant who had abandoned his shop at the height of fighting in the 1975-76 civil war appears at the door one morning, surveys the damage and sets about the job of reopening. Raking out waist-high rubble and empty shell casings the merchant uncovers the rotting remains of an unknown man, stripped naked by brigands of who can say which side. The owner, a Christian, shifts his rake to his left hand...
...very strong in football," noted Frank H.T. Rhodes, considering Cornell University's door mat status on the gridiron this season. "But we're very good at Frisbee." The British-born geologist, who this week will be formally inaugurated as Cornell's president, may not help his school's pigskin standings, but no matter. "The great universities are those in which people grow by contact with others in ever-widening circles," insisted Rhodes, 51, after suiting up in his new Cornell colors to throw the old platter around...
...city still has what one teacher describes, in a reference to traditional ethnic regard for education as the door to upward mobility, as "enough of a foreign element to insist on good education." The school on the hill is the pride of the community...
...stimulus to insulation demand is the yearlong boom in housing (TIME cover, Sept. 12), which depletes supplies rapidly. Says an O-C spokesman: "We have warehouses that normally contain a six-day supply. They are down to a one-day supply now. The stuff is going directly out the door from manufacturer to buyers...
Director Joseph Losey (The Boy with Green Hair) conveys menace with every worn-out Hitchcock device except a creaking door. Delon is summoned to a strange country house, where aristocrats he has never met greet him warmly, and the second Klein's mistress, acted with a shrug by Jeanne Moreau, plays word games with him. Even the other fellow's dog unaccountably (and illogically) takes a liking...