Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the ammunition expended. Even if all of them fell into Red hands, the Nationalist bastion of Formosa, about 120 miles to the east, would still be screened by the Pescadores Islands (see map). But the Nationalist garrisons of the offshore islands mock Mao Tse-tung on his very doorstep. (Tatan and Erhtan, with a combined area of 143 acres, lie smack in the mouth of Amoy harbor only 2½ miles from shore.) Moreover, since Formosa itself was under Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945 and has a strong separatist tradition, the islands of the Quemoy complex-together with...
Under the Stars. Occasionally, late at night, Wayne Powers would take a breath of fresh air at his doorstep. But mostly he stayed quietly indoors, peeping from behind the curtain, taking care of his pet rabbits, tending the children-Dorothy, Jimmy, Douglas, Harry, Freddy. In the birth certificates, Yvette listed the children's father as "unknown." The neighbors viewed the strange union with Gallic tolerance and were closemouthed with strangers. Three times in the 14 years French police came, looking for "a missing American soldier." Each time Yvette hid Wayne in a cubbyhole under the stairs. Back in Chillicothe...
...Scala. Having survived its roles as a furniture warehouse in World War I and a dance hall in World War II, Covent Garden is blooming as radiantly as the famed flower market at its doorstep. The home of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), it gives Londoners an almost year-round season of first-rate ballet and fine opera, although, in the opera department, Covent Garden is not in the same league as the Big Three (the Metropolitan, La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper). But it has the daring to experiment with difficult new productions, e.g., its mounting...
...stately dowager who sponsors the contest, and joyously waltzed her around the room before the startled judges. The next day he appeared at Mrs. Leventritt's Park Avenue apartment. "Honey," he said, thrusting a bunch of red roses at her, "Ah'm just a babe at your doorstep...
...Hungarian "counter-revolution": "You Hungarians were careless in not noticing the coming of the counterrevolution until it was on your doorstep. We Russians had to crush the counterrevolution, but, as a worker, I must say that you Hungarians should not stand around like fools with your mouths open. Don't be offended. You slept soundly with your fists clenched like children, and when the counterrevolution came, Russia had to help...