Word: doorjamb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children, as their roofs were blown away. Some houses were wrecked into splinters. One house was blown 700 feet. Mrs. Dorothy Lucas and her 18-month-old baby, Diana, were ripped out of their frame house, blown 500 feet to death, their bodies stripped of clothing. Doorjamb of the Lucas house, still bearing the small metal numerals of the address, was torn from the rest of the wreckage, jammed upright in the ground near Mrs. Lucas, like a grave marker...
...Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...