Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
...outside." But Sikorsky is cautious about new hiring: the firm will add only 400 to 500 people this year and a maximum of 2,000 by 1980. That means disappointment for most of the 6,000 skilled and semiskilled job seekers who have come to pound on the plant door since Sikorsky won the award...
Some of the seekers are former Vertol employees. The losing company has already laid off 550 workers, and many more fear their turn may come next. Says Jesse Butler, 49, "I'm ten men from going out the door." In November, after 14 years at Vertol, Butler was bumped down from an R.-and-D. mechanic to utility man, which means he is "down the drain $2,000 a year." Toolmaker Hubert Willis, 44, after 13½ years at the company, was laid off last October. Says he: "I felt I would be coming back because we would...
...Anna Maria, who taught at a school for the deaf in Cincinnati. His teammates were intrigued by the couple's unusual doorbell. The caller pulled a knob which released a lead ball on the floor. The Hoys heard the vibrations through their feet and knew someone was at the door...
...shoulder for evidence of one in the State Department. Lest Vance get hung up on the silly notion that he's the head honcho for foreign policy in the Carter camp, Zbigniew Brzezinski will be lurking in the dark corners of Foggy Bottom, trying to imitate the back-door strategy of another diplomat from the halls of academe...