Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, I'm spending a lot more time programming and a lot less time watching Tiny Toons. But the cat still sleeps with me and complains piteously if the door to the closet is heartlessly left closed, I still stay up until all hours of the night playing Trivial Pursuit with my brother and my parents still complain that there's nothing that all of us will eat. Life is good...
When one of Boehner's staff members opened the office door to peer outside, Capitol policemen were stationed in the hall. "The policeman told us to lock the door and stay inside," he says. Other officers gathered up tourists and shoved them into whatever offices they could, telling them to stay put as they tried to restore order and determine whether Weston was acting alone. The building was sealed, and officers began a room-to-room search, blocking stairways and elevators. When they had determined that this was not a coup, not a conspiracy, but rather another loner with...
...both men went down, Weston's gun landing on a staff member's desk. DeLay burst from his office at the sound of the shooting and began grabbing people and pushing them into his office, herding some of the women into a private bathroom and locking the door. There was blood everywhere. With so much gunfire, a source inside says, "we didn't know if it was terrorists or not." As Chestnut and Gibson lay dying, Capitol police swarmed in, surrounded Weston, got his gun and trained theirs on his head. He was woozy, bleeding from multiple wounds...
...long ago, anyone at all could walk up to the Capitol, open a door and wander pretty much at will. Visitors have long needed a pass to enter the House or Senate chamber, but it was only after 1983, when a bomb when off on the Senate side, that certain corridors to the leadership offices were cordoned off, magnetometers set up at the entrances, building passes required for employees and reporters, anti-terrorist planters installed in the parking lots, streets near the Russell Office Building closed off and sweeps by bomb-sniffing dogs ordered. There have been proposals every...
That's what has Texas steamed. A closed-door panel will hold hearings next month on whether Nolo, whose 150 titles cover topics from writing wills to applying for patents, has been practicing law without a license...