Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets and out of harm's way. Such precaution has become more and more sensible as they have been increasingly subjected to threats, insults and assaults by Iranians angered at Washington's support of the Shah. Many Americans have received threatening letters, shoved under a door or placed under a car windshield wiper. One anonymous letter warned several American families in the central city of Isfahan: "If you think of yourself as a human being, quit your job as soon as possible and leave our country. Otherwise you will be blamed for the consequences...
...national team." When reporters who were aware of the suspensions questioned him further, Essick stated flatly that "We will not discuss the individuals or the circumstances of the suspensions." "I guess they figured it would get out of hand," was Caulkins reaction to the AAU's closed door treatment of the issue. Some swimmers felt the AAU's, desire for secrecy a bit more strongly. Minutes after telling a Boston Globe reporter that the rules were unnecessary, that she thought three months was too severe a penalty in light of the fact that curfews are broken all the time...
...represented once Muhammed Ali...I met him over at a hotel in New York here, the Hilton. And he knocked on the door and said, "Quick, open up, close it." I opened the door, and just as I closed it, there were about five gals chasing him down the hallway, black and white, and he says "They'll tear me to pieces." He came in and we talked for about two hours. He's very intelligent, and not at all flamboyant...I had it worked out that they were going to dismiss [the draft evasion charges] if he would...
Despite his ravaged appearance, the once robust Bhutto, 50, had lost little of his self-assurance. He told the Supreme Court that his jailers had for a time kept him in a cell next door to 15 screaming "lunatics." Declared Bhutto: "Because I am a leader, I was able to survive this treatment. A lesser man would have dissipated [sic] long ago." Denying the murder charge, he added: "I am not a criminal. I am an important national leader. Is this the way you treat national leaders...
...Republican in upstate New York needs to raise money, he opens his front door, cups his hands in the autumn air, and shouts: "Hillary...