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Word: doorsteps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Romano's world is with ten minutes of the doorstep of his two-story house. Until his recent retirement, he worked at the Middlesex County Courthouse a few blocks away on Thorndike St. To buy groceries, to get a haircut, to pray at his parish church, to socialize evenings, all Jimmy Romano does is take a short stroll to Cambridge...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, Jacob M. Schlesinger, and Steven R. Swartz, S | Title: East Cambridge Clings To Old World Values | 7/9/1982 | See Source »

...Spanish Armada in 1588, when the King of Spain sent a fleet to conquer the English ships and to invade and impose Roman Catholicism on the people. When people say the Pope ought not to come, they are saying that something like the Spanish Armada is on our doorstep again. They have a notion that one last ship was left behind and is now arriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pope on British Soil | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Below the belt!" protested White House Spokesman David Gergen in a heated 45-minute briefing the following day. "To lay all of the problems that have been with this country for a long time on Ronald Reagan's doorstep, we think, is not fair," he added. Gergen sent two sharp missives to CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter requesting, "out of fairness," that the Administration be given a half-hour of prime time to respond. Replied Sauter: "In light of the extensive coverage which CBS has and will continue to provide to Administration viewpoints, we do not believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House vs. CBS | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...what their ideology appears to be now, or even how short the current regime falls of our democratic standards. Rather, we must worry about what will surely follow. The Communists will usurp the insurgents' victory, as they did in Cuba. We will have another enemy at our doorstep, and the Salvadoran people will continue to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...speech to the N.A.M. last week, he declared, "I've been a little disappointed lately with some in the business community who have forgotten that feeding more dollars to Government [by increasing taxes] is like feeding a stray pup. It just follows you home and sits on your doorstep asking for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inflation's Painful Slowdown | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

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