Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concrete steps they dragged him, feet first, his head cracking again and again on the treads. Parker pleaded in vain: "I'll walk if you all don't drag me!" Blood trailed the figures as they stumbled onward, and a bloody handprint was slapped on the doorstep. The other prisoners ran to the window, saw the men fling their victim into a car, watched as the car and four or five other autos drove off. Parker's terror-choked voice was drowned by the chatter of youngsters leaving a dance down the street...
...were back again. They were joined by a noisy, violence-bent band of Trotskyites,† Communists and left-wing rabble-rousers of the government National Revolutionary Movement. (A big banner demanded the establishment of diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R.) They burned the carefully hoarded copies of TIME on the doorstep of the seven-story building whose top three floors the embassy occupies, stoned windows, produced a homemade facsimile of the U.S. flag (with four-pointed stars) to burn on the smoldering ashes. Surging up to the U.S. Information Service Library a block away, they smashed more windows...
...speech did not lack for repercussions. Presaged by phone calls and threatening letters, a time bomb appeared one morning on Curley's doorstep. Investigation revealed it to be the work of Harvard students: a box of peppermints wrapped in a copy of the Boston Herald, to be ignited the ringing of an alarm clock...
...father, Leonard W. Labaree, is Farnham Professor of History at Yale, presently engaged in editing the Benjamin Franklin Papers. So Labaree was born at New Haven, and thence began a journey which has led ultimately to the Winthrop House doorstep--but by the scenic route...
...real life." Slowly, week by week, Abigail, the dowdy waif, replaced Sarah as the dowdy Queen's bosom friend-largely because Sarah had become haughty and downright rude to the Queen. When Sarah at last discovered that the ungrateful "dust broom" had swept her off the royal doorstep, she pelted the Queen with abuse, venting her spleen in "thunderclaps of fury and rage." Before a horrified crowd, she quarreled with her on the very steps of St. Paul's Cathedral...