Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race riot - New York City, like Pauline, invariably manages a third-reel deliverance before crisis turns to catas trophe. The city's latest ordeal, a dearth of funds that has threatened imminent, crippling reduction of municipal services, was averted last week as usual at disaster's doorstep...
...This is no time for the press of a great nation to play Hamlet-or Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann's China-doorstep arguments about Southeast Asia today are identical with his Russia-doorstep arguments about Greece and Turkey in 1947-and I believe identically fallacious about what the United States should...
They were clearly violating a federal regulation that prohibits camping in Washington parks. But then who would like to be remembered as the President who ordered the eviction of poor Negroes from his doorstep? Certainly not Lyndon Johnson, and Presidential Assistant Bill Moyers icily referred reporters to the Interior Department, which runs the city park system...
...University College in Swansea, he will be living in the city. Parry is especially fond of the rural life--his favorite non-academic pastimes are sailing, fishing, and bird-watching--and he admits that "the saddest thing about leaving Wales was losing that salmon stream that flowed by my doorstep." He will, however, retain his house in Harvard, Mass., about 30 miles west of Cambridge, and continue to spend vacations, summers, and some weekends there...
...example of understanding an object as a whole, the student said that when he looked at a newspaper on an LSD high, he not only saw the object which lay on his doorstep every morning, but also single letters put together to form words, words combined to make phrases; he saw people working hard to write the articles and printers sweating over their type; he saw thousands reading it, ignoring it, or folding it into paper planes...