Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dorchester, on the exploitation score, "know where they're coming from." Parents in the black sections of town don't relish busing either, but for them the school bus has become a symbol of mobility, not upward mobility, but just some kind of mobility--a foot in the door to society. For desegregation alone will not change the poor black's view of city politics and power; even when a black student can look a white teacher in the eye at South Boston High, he still knows where that teacher comes from and how she probably fits into the city...
...physically. They shared baths together, sometimes "hugged and kissed and cried and sobbed," and were intimate even after his gunshot wounds made conventional sexual relations impossible. She tells how she once shooed the security men out of George's hospital room as he recuperated; she locked the door "and returned to the arms of my waiting husband." Afterward, "his wheelchair had a new wiggle in its roll-and I had a new bounce in my walk." She fondly recalls the day when George "told me how very much he loved me and that he couldn't have made...
Biggest Coup. Among many other things, Wall forged two medium-size steel firms into Sweden's largest privately owned steel and foundry company, built a small licensing operation, Crawford Door, into Europe's leading maker of overhead sliding doors, and acquired Pribo, a major food-processing and leisure-goods conglomerate. His companies greatly expanded trade with Eastern Europe, exporting manufactured goods and importing meat, fish and other raw materials. In 1974 Wall scored one of his biggest coups by swallowing up Scandinavian Trading Co., which has become one of Europe's leading independent oil firms...
Peonies for Life. How one misses that old supporting cast! Much more than Poirot, Miss Marple inhabits a fixed and lively world. There is her tactless next-door neighbor, Miss Hartnell. "weather-beaten and jolly and much dreaded by the poor"; the wealthy, amiable Bantrys; taciturn Sir Henry dithering, who once ran Scotland Yard; and the village snob, Mrs. Price Ridley. Among Agatha Christie lovers, that lady is justly famous for putting a pound in the offertory bag on the anniversary of her son's death and then severely taxing gentle Vicar Clement when his counts show the largest...
This slim volume (by Delderfield standards) would not hold even a closet door open. As far as the flag and the Empire are concerned, it might be subtitled To Subvert Them All My Days or The Devil Is a Welshman. Delderfield's Angry Young Man, 1929-style, is a young bank clerk named Charlie Pritchard-5 ft. 5 in. of meekness, with horn rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth...