Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that she wanted to go is not so shocking; I can see the allure a final club must hold to someone in town from high school for the weekend. I myself have never been to a final club (unless you count my foray to the front door of the A.D. at 4 a.m. that Saturday night to retrieve the two girls), so I am not able to say anything about the parties or the people first hand...
Everyone with heart disease knows that if you survive a first attack, life becomes a long, complex negotiation with the menace--the killer in black pajamas who has come to live in the basement. You hear him down there. Sometimes he climbs the stairs and beats on the kitchen door. You feed him sublingual pellets of nitro and tell him to settle down...
...star's since they were all at New York University a decade ago. That's exactly right. The films are full of preadolescent aggression, exaggerated for laughs. In Billy Madison, Sandler gets his kicks by leaving a bag of flaming feces at a neighbor's door, saying the F word in a roomful of first-graders, mocking a stuttering boy. As a clumsy hockey player in Happy Gilmore, Sandler kills his dad with an errant slap shot. The films' running gag is of an innocent bystander getting clobbered by a sharp object. Pain is funny, if it's not yours...
...hated. Now in the doghouse, for no good reason, are the banks. Two weeks ago, mutual funds and other big investors decided these stocks had become "must owns," given the Federal Reserve's new bias toward easier credit. Shares of the Chases and Citigroups were flying out the door. An index of bank stocks peaked in July at 932, then plummeted to 592 in early October before vaulting back to 789 on Nov. 5, after the Fed's second rate...
...thousands of fearful South Vietnamese begged to be taken out of their country. Beech clawed his way through that crowd and, as Vietnamese clung to his limbs, was finally pulled over the embassy wall by a U.S. Marine. "My last view of Saigon," he wrote, "was through the tail door of the helicopter... Then the door closed--closed on the most humiliating chapter in American history...