Word: doorjamb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...only here because I had to stop off at the hospital," joked Chase, after bumping his head into the building's doorjamb. "I'm getting laxative treatments for that pesky Ebola...
...though, he had drawn close to John Burt of Rescue America and Burt's wife Linda, who, with her husband, runs a halfway house just outside Pensacola for unwed mothers, called Our Father's House. Griffin volunteered to do work around the place, fixing a leaky faucet, repairing a doorjamb, installing a security system. He was gentle with the babies of visitors and told the Burts of his hope that his wife could have her tubal ligature undone so that they could have more children. He also, according to Linda, complained about his long shifts at work: "He said...