Word: doored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be given. If you see a person with an ambulatory disability (e.g., using braces, crutches, a manual or motorized wheelchair) out on the street, it is very likely that he can fully take care of himself. When help is required to get up some stairs, open a door or reach an item in the dining hall, many of us prefer to ask for it rather than to be asked...
...nearly two decades, Wallace had been an inescapable irritant in American politics, like a fly determined to become part of the ointment. He had first served as a state senate page at the age of 16, but he seemed to have few prospects then. He sold magazines from door to door. After a stint in the Army Air Force, he won a job as an assistant attorney general, then as a state legislator, always feisty, eager to speak his piece. Elected a circuit judge in 1953, he told the courthouse boys that he was going to run for Governor. Wallace...
...Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Wallace promised when he won the governorship in 1962. He vowed to "stand at the schoolhouse door" of the University of Alabama to block its court-ordered integration, and he did. He had to step aside, but he had made his point, won his publicity. He was ready to run for President...
...using a combination of home remedies and equine psychoanalysis, would turn the beast into a champion. If, for instance, Jacobs thought a horse simply needed peace and quiet, he would remove him to a dark, remote stall. If a horse wouldn't eat, Jacobs would move him next door to a horse that ate like one, chop a hole in the wall so the hunger striker would observe the mad gluttony in the next stall and, sure enough, the power of suggestion usually worked. Once Jacobs determined from what he felt was a pained expression on a mare...
...makes no difference whether the foreign funds are scared money fleeing political and economic uncertainties, or entrepreneurial investments seeking opportunities for profit. An open-door welcome for all is the least that can be expected from the world's principal champion of free-market capitalism. For all its problems, the U.S. remains a land where foreigners by the millions still see immense potential, plentiful resources, an unshakable faith in the sanctity of private property, and a trust in the rewards of initiative. Now that they are able to afford it, there is nothing that should stop them from trying...