Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hindu goddess of destruction. His newest women are even more tulip-pink tarts, slathering in sensuality and seductive danger (see opposite), and yet they have brought collectors to his doorstep, checkbook in hand...
Hanson W. Baldwin expressed essentially this point of view in the magazine section of this Sunday's New York Times, and summed up his argument by stating, "....it is far better to fight in Vietnam--on China's doorstep--than fight some years hence in Hawaii, on our own frontiers...
...wants to be ordered around while Signora does her nails." Too lax a hand, and a goodly proportion end up more literally in the family way than the family had in mind. It was, in fact, the regular, annual arrival of 150 or so au pairs upon the doorstep of Britain's National Council for Unmarried Mothers that recently got the Home Office to issue a free pamphlet offering concisely stated advice in seven different languages. Now the generally accepted last word on the subject, a sort of Dr. Spock for au pair parents and charges, the text decreed...
...other times he invents a word or phrase to suit his needs. For instance, he labels a woman as "very house-proud"--because, by the way, she refuses to let her son-in-law leave the fly-infested corpse of his wife on her doorstep...
P.A.T. counted the violence and arrests a gain. "We have made our point," exulted one P.A.T. official. The board grimly agreed. "Force was brought to our doorstep," protested Superintendent of Schools Calvin Gross, warning that he would not wait two days next time to arrest parents who threatened yet another...