Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign costs relatively little, consisting mainly of lawn signs, and door-to-door and telephone canvassing, but Toomey says the door-to-door work isn't as effective as it was when he started in politics more than 30 years...
...still raises sheep, cuts timber and grows oats and corn on his 668-acre farm, the new Prime Minister mixes easily with all kinds of people and speaks to them in simple language about their problems. Admitted an envious Social Democratic politician: "Fälldin is like your next-door neighbor. He's what people think of as typically Swedish. He's a clever, honest...
...Ambassador to Washington Orlando Letelier, 44, passed by the stately stone mansion that had been his official residence for nearly two years. A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down as far as 250 feet away...
...even with that hefty sum, according to California Teachers' Association Chief Ralph Flynn, "we are barely managing to keep the wolf from the door. This just about meets the 6% cost of inflation, so our schools were bailed out for one more year...
Late one muggy afternoon last month, two men carrying bulging paper bags got out of a 1975 Mercury Marquis, walked up to a cigarette wholesaler's warehouse in Queens, pushed a bell above the steel door and were admitted. A few minutes later, another man rang the bell. "Whaddaya want?" he was asked over an intercom. "This is Jerry. I came to pick up the order," said the caller. "It's too late. I can't give you the stuff," said the voice, clicking off. The caller made a quick gesture to a building across the street...