Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute officials put their plan in action at the Master's garage on DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive. About a hundred SDS protesters waited outside--word had circulated that McNamara might try to sneak out through here--with some pro-McNamara counter-demonstrators. Sure enough, the door opened and a car pulled out. In the commotion that followed, some students tried to force an open path, others blocked the way, and hundreds ran over to join the action. It took some time before they realized that the car's occupant was not Robert McNamara, architect of the war, but Graham...
...until the "St. Patrick" is scheduled to come down to earth. Journalists are already populating the bar, slugging down the gin and tonics a little too quickly. Most of us are in the "Cloud 9" restaurant, and the three plump waitresses are going mildly mad. In the booth next door, a cameraman for Channel 3 is flashing black pin-stripes and a white bowler. There is a reporter for the Manchester Guardian who asks us if Harvard has started accepting women. There are reporters everywhere, lining the halls, careening into the state police and generally raising hell...
...eyes look right--the green tail of the Pope's plane comes slowly into view through the mist. It taxis slowly to position but overshoots the steps. The door opens and a stewardess appears. A photographer swears, having wasted two shots on what he thought was the Pope. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros heads up the ramp, the U.S. Chief of Protocol in tow. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is conspicuous in a black skirt-and-jacket-suit with a matching hat that could only be a bowler. The Pope makes his first appearance in the U.S. during his pontiffship and the dignitaries...
...deceive the careful observer. The quick smile, the comprehending expression that made clear he understood English without translation, the palpable alertness, were the features of a man who had had burned into him by a searing half-century the vital importance of self-possession. I greeted him at the door of the guesthouse and ostentatiously stuck out my hand. Chou gave me a quick smile and took it. It was the first step in putting the legacy of the past behind...
...China ... The United States Government does not challenge that position." Chou and I refined the text until at 8:10 a.m., concluding a nearly nonstop session of 24 hours, we had agreed on the main outline. We had scheduled our departure for 9 a.m. Chou took me to the door of the guesthouse and spoke to me for the first time in English: "Come back soon for the joy of talking...