Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every approaching stranger with suspicion. As they walk, some may clutch a police whistle in their hands. More often, especially after the sun sets, they stay at home, their world reduced to the confines of apartments that they turn into fortresses with locks and bars on every window and door. They are the elderly who live in the slums of the nation's major cities. Many are poor. White or black, they share a common fear-that they will be attacked, tortured or murdered by the teen-age hoodlums who have coolly singled out old people as the easiest...
...follow her closely so as not to arouse her suspicions. The others trail far behind. When she gets into the elevator in her apartment house, two or three will catch up and board it with her and get off at the floor below hers. Then, as she unlocks her door, they will suddenly appear in the corridor and shove her inside the apartment...
...window to children who would go to the store for her. Visiting The Bronx, a reporter from the New York Times talked to Clara Engelmann, 64, who had moved her bed into the foyer of her apartment and slept fully dressed so she could dash out the door the next time someone tried to break into her bedroom -which had happened three times before. "They're not human," she cried. "They're not human...
...button who declared: "There are people who say 'I'm not sure I want to go to heaven because there are niggers up there, and that won't be no heaven.' " About 15 minutes after entering, King was escorted out of the building. With the door again closed to him, King proceeded to deliver his own sermon on the church steps...
Silverman likes to claim that during his five years as head of programming at CBS, he pioneered in giving women more starring roles in variety and dramatic shows. (They have always been prominent in sitcoms. Mary Tyler Moore is a realistic girl next door. Maude a tough neurotic, Laverne and Shirley cheerful bumblers.) But there is nothing altruistic about this; what interests Silverman is the "heavy viewer" of the medium. According to Ed Bleier, executive vice president for television at Warner Communications, such people are the ones "you have to reach out for if you want the ratings." He explains...