Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be a plant," drones a glassy-eyed Mary Hartman from the Fernwood Receiving Hospital's mental ward. Who could blame her? As a pig-tailed Fernwood housewife on television's most talked-about series last season, Mary's doorstep had been darkened by adultery, impotence, venereal disease and an ax murderer, not to mention waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. No wonder Mary went bonkers on the show's closing episode. So what is next for poor Mary and her loopy friends in the new season that premiered last week?* It does not sound...
...days that followed, the chicken-lady never failed to pounce as the bus set me down at her doorstep for the hike home. And then I had to start talking. I think she was putting together a mental list of everything money can buy--a little project to while away the time. And she figured an American should know about luxury. Most country people refused to be taken in, as they saw it, by a thin cotton dress and a limp wallet. After all, you need money to get past that ocean. I would catch this woman scrutinizing me warily...
McCall fired the ball to midfielder Billy Forbush, who passed to his left to playmaker Martin, who returned the ball to Forbush right on the goalie's doorstep. The freshman slipped the ball over the netminder's right shoulder for the game winner, and the Harvard bench exploded, dancing for joy in the rain...
Terry Meagher cashed in on Liston's penalty at 6:31, poking in a Peter Brown rebound on Brian Petrovek's doorstep. Mike Fidler's rising shot 1:26 later made it 2-0 with O'Donoghue watching from...
Pegi Cunningham, the owner of the dogs, spoke to the council in a special hearing in which she detailed her version of the incident that left one of her dogs dead on her doorstep and two others wounded by .38 caliber police slugs...