Word: doorjamb
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...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...
...first things to go is the sense of sex as suspenseful... Then you get past thirty, and while time is of course as inexorable as ever, it is very difficult to measure in a credible way. You don't make higher marks on the doorjamb each birthday...
Never on the doorjamb, but sometimes in books. Like his running character, Berger has learned to cut down on adjectives and take it easy on the sauce. When Reinhart returns in his 70s, he may actually be underweight-in everything but entertainment value and insights. -By J.D. Reed...
...questions members of McCarran's committee once fired at him with a characteristically Fairbankian sense of deadpan humor. But, as few who know him at all can fail to mention, Fairbank often compresses some of his most serious observations into what Thomson has called his "inscrutable wit." On the doorjamb of his wonderfully book-laden study in Widener, for instance, Fairbank has scrawled four words that are almost Chinese in their terseness: "People sometimes; book, never," the door reads. Fairbank's humorous but decidedly cynical meaning squeezed between the lines here is, as translated by Thomson, that while people...