Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm, 41, had a case in point. "Norman Thomas in the 1948 campaign went down to the slums of Pittsburgh and knocked on a door. One of the lowest-paid members of our society opened the door, and Norman Thomas introduced himself. And the guy said, 'Oh, you're the son of a bitch who's trying to change our system...
...cold autumn days grow shorter, Eastern Europe's largest nation (after the Soviet Union) is headed for its most difficult year since 1970. In the late afternoon, outside one of the new Western-style supermarkets in Warsaw, a line of people 20 yds. long extends out the door and into the chilly darkness. It is mostly women, bundled in heavy coats and woolen scarves, their cheeks turned crimson by the subfreezing temperature. It is the ubiquitous meat queue, the most common symbol of Poland's political and economic malaise...
...small, female-run enterprises, as might have been expected. Says Benedict: "Our loan policy is no different from other banks." As a new institution, he adds, First Women's must be extra cautious in lending money because otherwise "every deadbeat in town will beat a path to our door...
Toomey spent hardly any money at all, and said he campaigned as he always had, just going door to door in the evenings...
Graham did that too, but with more gusto. She said her volunteers--about 200 in number--tried to drop a piece of literature at each door in the district three or four different times...