Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harris, a bank was "more than a place to deposit and borrow money; it was almost a kind of religious institution." His father "was a different man, it seemed to me, when he went to the bank. He took his hat off the minute he walked through the door." Whenever Harris and his chums spotted a shooting star, they yelled "Money!" three times in the hope of some day acquiring some...
...Chairman asked: "Do you think we've talked enough?" With that signal, his guests got up, the nurse helped Mao to his feet and the Americans started to leave, after shaking hands. But one of the Chinese halted them. "The Chairman wants to walk you to the door," he said. Mao and Ford went into the hall with the Ping Pong table and on out to the front door. In that singular house in that faraway land, it was a special gesture by this living legend...
...nightfall, 14 of the 50-odd hostages managed to run to safety from the rear of the train. The kidnapers stood firm. On the third day of the siege, after a fruitless round of negotiations, another passenger, wearing a yellow shirt and a red tie, was brought to a door of the train. He was shot fatally in the neck and flung onto the railroad bed. Soldiers standing a few hundred yards away openly wept at the cruel sight...
...charge, and led 40-39 at the half. According to Crimson guard Glenn Fine, Harvard did not play good defense during most of the game. The cagers did not work as a unit or pick up loose men, so the Judges were gifted with "an inordinate number of back-door plays and cheap buckets," Fine said...
What follows is entirely predictable and unabashedly vulgar. Inhibitions must be left at the door. Alan Bennett, one of the quartet of Beyond the Fringe a decade ago, has constructed no more than a sloppy farce, but in Director Frank Dunlop's nimble hands it becomes an uproarious kaleidoscope of pratfalls. The Wicksteeds live in a world still superficially Victorian, but underneath there rage fires of frustration fed by the characters' anxiety that if an opportunity arises, their sexual equipment may be unequal to the occasion. Thus every double-entendre is not merely dirty but wistful. The cast...