Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, The Urban Complex, Robert Weaver reasoned: "It is an escape from changing neighborhoods, lower-class encroachment, inadequate public services and inferior schools. It is running away from the ugly facts of urban life; facts that have always existed, but never for long on the doorstep of 'nice people' who had the option of escape...
...million exploring the British North Sea by 1969. There is every indication that their huge gamble will ultimately pay off. What they are playing for is a major gas field -some think it may prove to be the world's biggest-that is located on the very doorstep of one of the world's fastest growing energy markets: Western Europe...
...could drown out the incessant Muzak. The occasion was the Sixth Congress of the International Council of Christian Churches, held at the smartly modern Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva. It was no accident that the L.C.C.C. chose Geneva, and the Intercontinental, for its meeting. The hotel is practically on the doorstep of the World Council of Churches headquarters across the street, and if there is anything the L.C.C.C. enjoys, it is the opportunity to needle the World Council...
...long war. "Viet Nam is a nasty place to fight," said Baldwin. "But there are no neat and tidy battlefields in the struggle for freedom; there is no 'good' place to die. And it is far better to fight in Viet Nam-on China's doorstep-than fight some years hence in Hawaii, on our own frontiers." The same day Baldwin's piece appeared, the Times issued a rebuttal: "Such an approach discards any pretense that our objective in Viet Nam is to protect the Vietnamese people...
...time I've ever cringed to see schoolteachers get a pay increase," she says. Working an average 14-hour day, seven days a week, Miss Bonnie still managed to get to the bedside of a sick child of a staff member-and to show up at the right doorstep in town when the school needed help from the community. Promoting higher taxes, she got local authorities to buy 227 acres for a campus eight miles northeast of Charlotte and build a plant worth $3,000,000. With skillful lobbying from Charlotte, the 1963 general assembly was persuaded...