Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zanesville, Ohio, Mrs. Cleo Newsom complained to police of a thief who not only stole milk from her doorstep, but left orders for whipping cream...
...penalty for not following them is summed up in one episode: "During the retreat from Flanders, on the road from Vimy, an old French peasant woman, standing on her doorstep and watching the procession of refugees stream by, said to me sadly: 'The pity of it, Captain! Such a great country...
...shrinking budget or by misguided publicity seekers, but by administrative incompetency, which he lays alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simon President Conant's doorstep...
...speed construction of naval, air and marine bases (but nothing to fortify Guam, at Japan's doorstep...
...ultimate personal obligation of a citizen admits of no debate; still less of debate founded upon anxiety for one's own skin; least of all of irresponsible, highly publicized debate by a minority of men of that University on whose doorstep the arms of Washington came into being; whose sons were foremost among the resolute, skilled and fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops...