Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard someone shout, "They're attacking ... they're coming over the wall!" Grabbing a shotgun, he ran to the commissary, helped lead some U.S. and Iranian staffers to safety, then moved to a nearby restaurant. Bullets smashed the windows, and fists began banging on the locked door. Kraus radioed Ambassador William H. Sullivan. "I told him it's best that we surrender," he recalled. "There were noncombatants in there. They'd be killed." Sullivan agreed, and Kraus and the two other Marines with him and the civilians in the room began chanting the Persian word...
...market for the new phones. Himsworth envisions the day when PBX systems will transmit programmed information to put through a wake-up call to an employee in the morning, electronically turn on the lights and air conditioner a few minutes before he arrives at work, and lock the office door when he leaves at day's end. Electronic word-processing machines may be hooked onto the phone system, Himsworth figures, allowing an employee to punch out a letter at his desk and have it automatically transmitted to one or 1,000 receiving devices attached to phones throughout the system...
...Rogers's horse and Miss Watermelon of 1955." Outside of writing and reading, her chief activity was raising birds, and she regaled everyone with anecdotes about them, especially her beloved peacocks: "I used to say I wanted so many of them that every time I went out the door I stepped...
Juan Mitchell popped in three from mid-range and added two free throws as the Lions took control. Unheralded John McElaney (averaging less than one point per game) teamed with Alton Byrd to connect on several back-door buckets as the Crimson was forced into a man-to-man defense and could not compensate for Columbia's quickness...
...jailer took out a large metal key and opened a heavy steel door. Beyond that were "grungy guys and dingy, dark cells where you have to scrounge for toilet paper. The floor was grimy. The walls had been repainted about 25 times." There were four or five men in their mid-20's arrested on drug charges. After listening to the six-hour-long conversation of one prisoner with the chaplain. Yates was convinced the man had been framed on a rape or child-molesting charge...