Word: doorstep
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...been reading the paper and watching the tube, trying to keep up-to-date on the flood zones, evacuation orders, and road closures (including portions of Interstate 80); looking at wrenching images of flood scenes near and far: a woman crying on her Des Moines doorstep as she's told to evacuate; a couple row-boating through their mobile home park in Altoona; an Iowa City police officer wading through water with a little boy on his shoulders; an astonishing aerial view of downtown Cedar Rapids where downtown buildings look like rafts in an ocean. But mostly, my fellow sandbaggers...
...Josef Fritzl told the police that he disposed of the body by throwing it into the furnace he used to heat his house. For years, Josef and his wife Rosemarie told friends and neighbors they adopted the three "upstairs" children after Elisabeth left them as infants on their doorstep...
...lack of medical care. The other three, Lisa (15), Monica (14) and Alexander (12) lived in the house, attended the local school, and appeared to be normal. Josef allegedly told his wife that their daughter had run away to join a cult and had left the babies on the doorstep of the house. He produced a letter allegedly from her, which was quoted in the Austrian press: "Don't try to find me, it would be pointless and would increase my suffering and the suffering of my children. Also too much education and too many children are unwanted there...
Yellow pages may soon go green if Cambridge City Councillor Sam Seidel gets his wish. The council voted unanimously on Monday to look into an eco-friendly plan that would allow residents to opt out of having phone books delivered to their front doorstep. “You and all your friends look up most of your phone numbers on the Internet now,” said Seidel, who earned an urban planning degree from the Graduate School of Design in 2001 and won a Council seat last fall. “The Internet has become the new phone book...
...there. Morning hours are also the least convenient hours in the day to draw women and religious minorities from river houses that the new policy is supposedly aimed at benefiting. Why make a trek at eight in the morning when there’s a gym right outside your doorstep? Well, for us Quadlings, the QRAC is right outside our doorstep...