Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since June 1997, the 30-year old lawyer has been walking door-to-door chatting with Cantabrigians, sometimes six or seven days per week, as he says, out-working the competition...
...voter list. We went door to door. We got involved," Barrios says. "I think the voters realized that we were actually going to work on the issues. We were doing more than saying...
...hope is to treat [being a representative] as a full-time job," he says, adding that he continues to walk door-to-door from time to time to keep a pulse on what his constituency is interested...
...giving lectures and demonstrations. Walker attracted the notice of the race's elite, despite the dubious regard in which they held hairdressers. She disrupted Booker T. Washington's National Negro Business League Convention in 1912 by demanding to be heard. "Surely you are not going to shut the door in my face," Walker shouted to Washington, who had ignored her for three days. "I have been trying to tell you what I am doing. I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. I was promoted from there to the washtub. Then I was promoted...
Ling, an Oklahoma high school dropout, went into the electronics business in 1946 with a $3,000 stake. To finance his earliest acquisitions, he hired salesmen to peddle shares of Ling Electric Co. door to door in Dallas and even set up a booth at the Texas State Fair. Brokers laughed, but investors did well. "The genesis of our business was diversification," says Ling of his rapid expansion, which included everything from aircraft to baseball mitts...