Word: doorstep
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...major leaguer famously once said that he’d “walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” Captain Morgan Brown, it seems, is the rare individual to have done practically everything but that.How ironic it would be, on the doorstep of bigger dreams, to take an unexpected detour. It wouldn’t be the first time.—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...field. The Corporation imposes a strict policy of secrecy, and none of the presidential potentials are informed that they are, in fact, candidates. As a result, campaigning is kept to a minimum.“If you’re qualified, the Committee will show up at your doorstep,” says Graff.Initial meetings take place in the offices of interviewees, but as the search proceeds, candidates are flown to law offices and hotel suites to maintain the veil of secrecy. According to The Crimson, Summers’ final interview was held in the Presidential Suite of the Boston...
...that we have seen already. A talented attorney at one of London’s largest law firms, Williams has his life rattled by the appearance of a ne’er-do-well school friend from Ireland. Geordie literally shows up on Danny’s doorstep with ?50,000 in stolen money and intentions of staying with him long enough to avoid the Loyalist militia types who are after their money...
...killed by the virus or culled, while 22 people have been infected and 14 have died. But an ambitious and wide-ranging national response has drastically reduced both avian and human cases since the peak of the outbreak in the autumn of 2004. As H5N1 spreads to Europe's doorstep, learning from Thailand's methods could help other countries keep the disease under control. Step 1 is early detection. Many of Thailand's 250 million chickens live in small household farms scattered throughout the country. Official surveillance could easily miss those birds, but a broad network of community health volunteers...
...plan is set into motion when they also enlist the worst director in the business, the flamboyant (to put it mildly) Roger De Bris, played by scene-stealing Gary Beach. And fate comes knocking when Ulla, a sexy aspiring actress with a heavy Swedish accent, shows up at their doorstep. Although they hire her as a secretary/receptionist, sparks fly between her and Leo. All seems well until, despite their best efforts, the show opens and accidentally becomes a runaway success.The Broadway production improved immeasurably upon its source material—the 1968 Best Original Screenplay Oscar winner starring Gene Wilder...