Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to relish it. Thursday night, only hours after he took on the oil and gas industry, the President was in a buoyant mood as he played host on the White House South Lawn to 500 Georgians of the "Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door to door in its early days. Old Friend Bert Lance was there, and the former Budget Director spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom. When one member of the Brigade told Carter that "on the next go round, you can count on every one of us again," a pleased President responded...
...script competition was scrupulously fair and professional and the officers were willing and available for discussion and guidance. There was no "needless encouragement," nor did anybody who wished to test his/her mettle have the door slammed in their face. Those who competed knew--or should have known themselves--what kind of work was involved, and what the risks were. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. JunMakihara...
...there don't seem to be any other people around any more and it seems an awful long way to the station door and down and out ain't it like Orwell, it's scary here in the 500s on Tremont St. when the show is over...
MAYBE YOU'LL think of somebody, somebody you've seen approaching the condition of this man with the musician's fingers that tremble with his second joint. I think of a man who had grown up next door to my best friend in England. Where you can register, legally, as an addict and the glib talkers can proclaim, "See, heroin itself doesn't do any harm. What's wrong is the social system of a country like America, where the addict is a criminal because he's hooked, and because he's hooked he has to become a criminal...
...novel to serve as such a podium; too many other diversions compete for the public's attention. But The Ice Age is Drabble's reminder that writers are also citizens of a dangerous, uncertain world, and that social responsiblity need not be parked outside the door of the study. - Paul Gray