Word: doorjamb
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...thing I said to her was, "I'm going to go in the house and call Joe. Thanks for coming by." I turned, I got my hand on the knob of the door. I only know that because the police said there was blood on the inside of the doorjamb. Within that second, she pulled a gun out, aimed it at my head and pulled the trigger. The next thing I knew, it was three days later...
...door to the room he shared with Millican and three other soldiers open from the outside. Sergeant First Class Sean Bennett instinctively slammed it shut with his right shoulder. But the attacker in the hall still managed to cram the muzzle of an AK-47 into the doorjamb and let fly a stream of bullets. "The guy just opened up," says Wallace, who threw his left side against the door as the firing continued. "He started blasting all over the room the best he could...
...this disorder are being seriously researched. In spite of a lifetime of being considered stupid, weird or worse, I feel fortunate that my problem was noticed early and I was taught to read at home before beginning school. Still, I am just as likely today to walk into a doorjamb as to make it through a doorway successfully. I am, however, an imaginative, practical problem solver as well as ambidextrous. My creativity far outweighs dyslexia's negatives. Let's hope the stigma is lifted for all of us who see the world a bit differently. PENNY TASSIN Linden, Texas...
...year has taken up another noble pursuit. Jonathan M. Guberman '03 of Canaday F searches for sins. It started about one month before winter break, when Guberman was crossing the hall to hang out with the guys. He noticed the word "greed" written in faint orange marker on the doorjamb. He asked his neighbors about the word, but they knew nothing beyond that it had been there for a while. Guberman thought nothing of it and continued with his normal daily activities...
...life together after the White House, musing about his marriage and whether he would be alone in three years. In the most secure 18-acre complex on earth, the only place he could find some privacy was in a windowless hallway outside his office, leaning against a doorjamb, because, he told her, it was easier on his back. When she found out from a White House guard that he was in the Oval Office entertaining the attractive Eleanor Mondale and stormed off in fury, he called her later to say, "It's none of your business...