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...days that followed, the chicken-lady never failed to pounce as the bus set me down at her doorstep for the hike home. And then I had to start talking. I think she was putting together a mental list of everything money can buy--a little project to while away the time. And she figured an American should know about luxury. Most country people refused to be taken in, as they saw it, by a thin cotton dress and a limp wallet. After all, you need money to get past that ocean. I would catch this woman scrutinizing me warily...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Trapped in Perpetual Transit | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

McCall fired the ball to midfielder Billy Forbush, who passed to his left to playmaker Martin, who returned the ball to Forbush right on the goalie's doorstep. The freshman slipped the ball over the netminder's right shoulder for the game winner, and the Harvard bench exploded, dancing for joy in the rain...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: ...Laxmen Shock Princeton; Batmen Take Twinbill | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

Terry Meagher cashed in on Liston's penalty at 6:31, poking in a Peter Brown rebound on Brian Petrovek's doorstep. Mike Fidler's rising shot 1:26 later made it 2-0 with O'Donoghue watching from...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: B.U. Humiliates Harvard, 8-4, in ECAC Semifinal | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

Pegi Cunningham, the owner of the dogs, spoke to the council in a special hearing in which she detailed her version of the incident that left one of her dogs dead on her doorstep and two others wounded by .38 caliber police slugs...

Author: By Henry Griggs, | Title: Councilors Order Probe of Shooting Of Dogs by Police | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...same memo, Malek, thinking big, suggested that Nixon might hold a cabinet meeting (possibly after the China trip, he said) to discuss the responsiveness program. Haldeman, however, tactfully rebuffed the zealous Malek from bringing his program too close to the Oval Office doorstep. "Don't worry about a Cabinet meeting," Haldeman wrote beside the suggestion...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Mr. Malek Comes to Harvard | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

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