Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alumni bulletin writer said, "[The undergraduate] doesn't walk into Gothic emptiness or Georgian hall. He walks straight into a bright world of books. He can lay hands on one almost before the door has closed behind...
Over the last few months, the task force developed the new proposals. But Triantafillou said very few members of the community came to the task force meetings, which were open door...
Over the last few months, the task force developed the new proposals. But Triantafillou said very few members of the community came to the task force meetings, which were open door...
...clearing beyond the apple orchard. They have settled into the hives, and, with a single-mindedness that is funny and impressive, go about the business of their miraculous, strange little universe. I watch them with almost parental affection--the buzzing, teeming clockwork, the workers cleaning cells, guarding the front door, foraging for nectar; the short, fat drones, fatherless and stingless and indolent, swaggering about, hoping to get lucky with a virgin queen...
...rest of the Hugh Grant package--the blue shirt and khakis, the bounteous hair he repeatedly refers to as "floppy"--is reassuringly intact. And so is that Hugh Grant awkwardness; he somehow manages to walk straight past the restaurant before realizing his mistake, doubles back, comes in through a door with a sign on it advertising (What else?) Notting Hill and says sheepishly (How else?), "Sorry. You'd think I'd know how to get here." No need, of course, to apologize. This is Hugh Grant. One can forgive him pretty much anything...