Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, the problem child ran away with a "flashily dressed, middleaged" Middle Eastern diplomat. Two and a half years later. Komsomolskaya Pravda reported, a pathetic figure stood begging forgiveness on her father's doorstep. How she had paid for her folly! Her husband, it turned out, already had one wife, and Svetlana had been little more than a brutalized, half-starved harem slave, forced to wait on wife No. 1 and her three children. This, said Komsomolskaya Pravda, was the awful fate awaiting those "frivolous girls who consider they are born only for amusement and recklessly chase after foreign...
...pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-gé-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...last story begins promisingly-a Negro foundling is placed on the doorstep of a prominent white parson who has six children, nine bathrooms, liberal views and a carnivorous wife. The reader is encouraged, feeling that from such a start Schwartz cannot fail to arrive somewhere. For a while this optimism is justified; idealism, hypocrisy and natural family contentiousness roil before one's very eyes, and the parson's eldest daughter, horrified to see her parents act like racists, dashes off to college with the baby...
Only the Finns, who have learned to smile in the face of the Russian bear, kept calm. For 17 years Finland has managed the most spectacular balancing act in Europe. Perched on Russia's doorstep, Finland has had to permit Soviet meddling in its internal affairs to the point of allowing the ouster of anti-Communist Cabinet ministers; nevertheless, the country has remained strongly independent and has prospered economically while maintaining a vigorous democracy...
...universal solution is "going with," "going along with," or, in a squarer phrase, "going steady." A boy often signals this understanding by giving a girl his fraternity pin, following up with roses delivered to her sorority house during a candlelight ceremony. Dating security leads at least to the doorstep necking or the kiss before class that sometimes is known as P.D.A.-public demonstration of affection. The authorities frown on P.D.A. "We don't want to discourage kissing," says the University of Miami's Assistant Dean Louise Mills. "But we do try to tell the girls they shouldn...