Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have settled in Monaco, and the principality has prospered since World War II as the headquarters for scores of foreign firms, including Allied Chemical, U.S. Time, and the weapon trader, Interarmco, that do the bulk of their business outside Monaco's 388 acres. A tax haven at his doorstep nettled Charles de Gaulle, who was bothered about Monaco long before he took on his economic competition with Britain. Convinced that Monaco-based businessmen enjoyed an unfair advantage over their taxpaying French competitors, De Gaulle last April abrogated a treaty guaranteeing Monaco's tax-free status and insisted that...
...evening, while she muses on her doorstep, a tall old tramp (Georges Wilson) strides by. She staggers back, moves as if to cry out, hesitates, stares after him bewildered. Impossible! But for an instant she could have sworn the old tramp was her husband! Next day when he comes by again she asks him in. He has a kind mouth and sad eyes that light up wonderfully when she plays Rossini on the jukebox, but something in his face suggests a damaged and diminished man. "I've lost my memory," he explains shyly. She faints. She is sure...
...rewarding experience today to see five youngsters sitting on a doorstep obviously having a gay time. Upon inquiry I discovered that each had a script of the play currently being produced and was enjoying himself by learning parts other than...
...Mother Kelly's doorstep, down paradise row I sit along of Nelly, she sits along of Joe. She's got a little hole in her frock, A hole in her shoe, a hole in her sock, Where her toe peeps through...
This minor-sounding inaccuracy means that the nearby moon on earth's very doorstep follows an orbit that cannot be measured closer than ¾ mile...