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Years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who tutored Akihito during his childhood, said to Dr. Koizumi: "She who marries the crown prince must be a girl of spirit who will not be a doormat; she must not be someone who will be easily overwhelmed." Michiko Shoda, standing straight and slim beside her devoted prince, seems precisely that girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Girl from Outside | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...virtue of a 5-5 tie with Princeton and an overwhelming 13-0 victory over doormat Cornell, the Crimson hockey squad moved into sole possession of second place in the Ivy League this weekend...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Crimson Sextet Triumphs Easily | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

Fresh from its 7-1 romp over B.U. on Wednesday, the varsity soccer team will encounter Brown, the doormat of the Ivy League, here today. The game is scheduled to start...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Soccer Squad Will Oppose Rough, but Winless Brown | 11/15/1958 | See Source »

...Premier Guy Mollet trod his way to the end last week with a certain nonchalance. "No regrets," he told one of his executioners, "now I can take a rest. They can nail me up on the wall like a trophy, but I won't be used as a doormat." In his conduct of the war in Algeria the militancy of Mollet's patriotism had offended the left, and now that the war bill had to be paid the right was appalled by his Socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Big Knife | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...teams the Crimson has beaten, only Penn, the doormat of the league, and Columbia, its close companion, should improve; but then, what else could they...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/23/1957 | See Source »

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