Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attend a Washington public school since Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin in 1906. While that was another demonstration of the new First Family's egalitarian faith, it also thrust Amy even further into the public spotlight that seems increasingly to bother her. Arriving at the school door, Amy tugged unsmilingly at her mother's arm as she stopped to wave to the crowd of photographers. Amy, says Mrs. Carter's press secretary, Mary Hoyt, "is self-conscious around the press-she's learned to put her head down...
...Quentin Roosevelt's example, her privacy should be relatively safe. Arriving late one day for class, the story goes, Quentin disrupted his fellow students' work by singing and wildly waving his arms. For his misbehavior, school officials sent him home -where the White House butler opened the door...
...late in the evening, two men in their 20s wearing green topcoats. In third-floor offices at Calle Atocha 55 in downtown Madrid, eight young lawyers employed by the Communist-dominated labor-federation comisiones obreras (workers' commissions) were still in their offices when the pair burst through the door. Brandishing automatic weapons apparently equipped with silencers, they herded a male receptionist and the lawyers, one of them a woman, into a semicircle and ordered them to hold their hands in the air. One of the team of killers ripped out telephone lines, while the other demanded the whereabouts...
...Office Door. "The man is incapable of administering the affairs of the U.M.W.," says Patterson. Patrick calls his former ally "a disaster as president." For evidence, they point to his inability to control disorderly meetings of the U.M.W.'s 21-member international board, Miller's habit of spending long weekends in Charleston, W. Va., near his home, and his failure to check the rash of wildcat coal strikes that have plagued the industry during his tenure, including last summer's prolonged walkout that idled more than 90,000 miners...
...dictator." Miller has recently shown a draconian side, abruptly dismissing several top aides, beefing up security at the union's Washington headquarters and insisting that everyone, including Patrick, clear all travel with him. When one of Miller's secretaries was suspected of political plotting with Patrick, the door to her office was removed. (It has since been restored...