Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's blue-eyed, sallow Superintendent of Schools William Harding Johnson lives in the six-room lower half of a two-family house in the Rogers Park section of Chicago's North Side. Last week a dynamite bomb shattered his rear doorstep. It was, said the police bomb squad, "no amateur...
...equilibrium. Parents retorted that to send their children to the appointed schools often meant sending them farther from home than before. Some 10,000 families sabotaged his plan by organizing mass hookey. Indignation meetings sent delegations buzzing to Johnson from all sections of the city. When his back doorstep was blown up, he had been ducking an Illinois Superior Court subpoena for two days...
...Russian plan "realism" or cynicism? Earlier indications had been that Russia did not take the conference very seriously. For one, she seemed to think the conference could have been held earlier or else postponed until later. Right now there were pressing problems right on her doorstep-Poland, the Baltic States and even the disposition of German territory. Secondly, she had disappointed the U.S. and Britain by choosing 35-year-old Ambassador Andrei Andreevich Gromyko to head her delegation. Yet on his arrival this week, fresh from Moscow, Ambassador Gromyko was "most optimistic" about the conference's success...
...absence on this front is the irritating lack of news. News not only of the Allied liberation of the French peoples, but of the world. (Yes, it's true, we here in France don't even know what in the hell is going on at our very doorstep.) Our G.I. Stars & Stripes is reaching us quite steadily, but unfortunately it has yet to find a writer who can report as successfully as yours. Typical of that is the remark of a brother G.I. at our first mail-call on French soil. We were in a semicircle about...
...muddy brooks some soldiers would break discipline, stoop and guzzle the water-nothing else could be had en route. The fields were barren and deserted, the houses shuttered and hollow. Once we saw a hunchbacked cripple spading his garden. In one village a blind peasant sat on his doorstep amidst the empty houses of his neighbors and listened to the plodding shuffle of passing troops...