Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfair to some students Harvard turns away from its first-year class each fall, Paul said. "If they (transfer students) couldn't get in the first year, it isn't right for them to get in the back door now," he said...
...lamely that the oil sanction issue "was never discussed." The Tories' see-no-evil, hear-no-evil policy apparently helped prompt the oil companies to drop the oil-swapping sham and return to direct shipments through Lourenço Marques. Not until a newly independent Mozambican government closed that door in 1976 did the trade stop. Today Rhodesia gets its oil directly from South Africa's supplies...
Last week the council's Executive Committee conferred at the Hanasaari Conference Center near Helsinki. After closed-door sessions, the jittery officials issued a terse endorsement of the grant. However, TIME learned that there was intense debate over a further statement to be issued this week, and about a bold plan to grant another $85,000 to the Patriotic Front...
...with tougher laws and arrests. The prostitutes move off the streets. The police start worrying more about muggers and murderers. The constitutionality of the law is challenged. The hookers return, like the tide. Police chiefs tend to sound like a gloomy Greek chorus about this endless cycle. The revolving door of the court system is expensive and fruitless. Prostitutes plead guilty; the judge slaps down a fine and lets them go. To pay the fine, they have to turn more tricks and soon wind up back in court...
...that they share with a parrot named Cora and two iguanas (one of which is named Truman Capote because, as Robin explains, "he's cold-blooded"). Robin's sketches, however, occasionally reflect the ironies of Celluloid City. One, called the "Hollywood Mime," for instance, has a character dancing from door to door in Hollywood, banging on each and smiling hopefully until the smile literally falls off his face and has to be pasted back on. Robin Williams should have no such tribulations: his is stuck tight with Krazy Glue...