Word: doorsteps
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...Father) was walking home from a Manhattan restaurant with his wife, he spotted a sign on a Lexington Avenue third-floor window: LIVE NUDE MODELS. That was when Talese, a lapsed Catholic of conventionally moralistic upbringing, suddenly realized that the sexual revolution had landed almost literally at his doorstep. Next day he walked back alone for his first massage-parlor massage...
...north of Paris with the aid of some Le Parisien Libéré printers who belong to the socialist Force Ouvrière, a union that does not recognize the strike. That labor organization's head, André Bergeron, escaped injury when a bomb exploded on his doorstep just a few minutes after the one that killed Cabanes. All together, government officials estimate, there have been some 150 acts of violence associated with the strike...
...gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such a powerful stench in the hot sun that it quickly lost much of its curiosity value. Some townsfolk reciprocated later by depositing on Canuck and Brown's doorstep the moldering carcasses of sharks from local waters...
...debate over Indochina [April 28] is as revealing as ever. Although the war effort has failed, those who supported that effort will continue to lay the failure at the doorstep of every variable involved except their own gross miscalculations and erroneous assumptions. There never was anything but darkness at either end of the tunnel...
Even if Saigon regroups its defenses and forms a tight perimeter around the capital, holding off the attackers until the summer rainy season slows the fighting, the Communists are likely to be on the capital's doorstep when the dry season arrives; they already have seven divisions and at least 200 tanks in the area. Without some political solution - meaning a coalition with the Communists - Hanoi and the Viet Cong will press for the military victory that they have been seeking for ten years. Saigon can probably hold out for quite a while, at great cost to any attacker...