Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mahatma Gandhi once said, "is a poem of pity." Last week India's sacred animal brought not pity but violence to the very doorstep of government. The occasion was a rally of 125,000 Hindus, who had come from all over India to pressure the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi into enacting a national ban on cattle slaughter. Converging on a traffic circle near Parliament, the demonstrators at first listened peacefully to speeches. Then a sadhu (Hindu holy man), a member of Parliament, sprang onto the speaker's stand. He had just been ushered...
...steel-gray Harvard Bridge, which is now receiving a preliminary coat of red-orange. "I'd like to paint it crimson," he said, "but M.I.T. might consider that adding insult to injury. They have never liked the idea of a bridge named after Harvard running right past their doorstep...
...bleak future of China drew comment last week from a distinguished scholar who for five years has been stationed at Mao's doorstep: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer. Retiring from his post last week, the 55-year-old Tokyo-born Harvard professor, who has studied in China and written about the country, took the occasion to offer his own assessment of trends on the mainland...
...well known that when he walks down the street, would-be artists often start dancing or singing for him. He keeps his home address in New York's Westchester County a secret for fear that "I'll have every harmonica player within 100 miles sitting on my doorstep to audition." Former contestants often write to him, saying that they have children ready for the next round of auditions...
Landing a few steps outside his doorstep, the student was talking with a girl in a dark-haired boy stepped in front him and asked him for a cigarette. With three other boys surrounding him, undergraduate offered him one diplomatically, but had the pack snatched of his hands...