Word: doorsteps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came to power in a 1977 army coup, Kriangsak has found it hard to manage a largely agricultural economy that is plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. He has also had to give a great deal of his attention to the threat posed by war at Thailand's doorstep, and the persistence of Communist insurgency, especially in the south...
...emphasized how difficult it had been to raise $8.4 million for the building, with second down and $1.4 million still to go. "Two years ago, we were literally back on our own goal line," said Ford, "and we had a long row to hoe. Now we are on the doorstep of success." The Ford library, when completed in two years, will contain 14 million documents, 700,000 ft. of film and 380,000 photographs. One of the documents: a copy of the proclamation Old 48 signed in 1974 granting presidential clemency to Whittier College No. 12, Richard Nixon...
...chooses. The big question facing Britain now is whether the determined Iron Lady, having gained the pinnacle of political success, will act according to the sharp words that sometimes marked her campaign rhetoric, or the conciliatory ones of St. Francis that she quoted so movingly on the doorstep...
...like walking to the doorstep--heart pounding and skin tingling--on a first date, leaning over expectantly for that magic kiss, and receiving instead a hard, sudden slap to the face...
...swarms of teenage boys tried to make out with reluctant gum-chewing teenage girls. Considering, though, that these "fabulous '50s" turned into the "turbulent '60s," it would seem that America suddenly woke up one morning and instead of finding a crew-cut Richie Cunningham on its doorstep, found Abbie Hoffman and a whole lot of trouble...