Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little things, of course, that reinforce the image that one forms. When I leave for the last time, Bryant stands up, shows me to the door and goes back to work. "Call me if there's anything I can do for you," he says. In search of a balanced view, I visit or call people from all walks of the Yard who have known or dealt with Bryant, searching frantically for the person, any person, who will say something negative about him, or criticize his tenure. But nobody does...
...civil servant in the ministry of Economics to a staked assassin. Events are connected enigmatically--Maldonado returns from his operation to his Jewish wife who is rocking mutely in a nun's habit; a man killed in a meat freezer scrawls the word "nun" in blood on the glass door. The reader, along with Maldonado, wonders whether and why things occur. All the disjointed events arrive at a climactic suspension--Maldonado's second attempt on the President's life. The reader never discovers whether Maldonado is successful the second time...
...sitting in my brand-new Butler building surrounded by steel of high quality folded at ninety degree angles. The only thing prettier than ladies as an I-beam painted bright yellow. I told 'em I wanted a big door. A big door in front where a girl could hide her car if she wanted to evade the gaze of her husband the rat poison salesman. You ever been out with a ratpoison salesman? They are fine fellows with little red eyes...
Sources report the thieves, armed with high-powered rifles, waited behind the Purolator garage and fired through a garage door after the arrival of an armored truck carrying money from Hartford for delivery to several New York City banks...
...Attorney General Griffin Bell was cited for contempt last summer and threatened with jail for refusing to release confidential FBI files, Washington Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr. teasingly sent his good friend an unusual present. The Attorney General escaped the jail threat, but he hung the gift on his office door. It was still there when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. faced a contempt threat as a result of a North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell...