Word: doorsteps
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...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...
Israel Kastner was not present to rejoice in his vindication. Last March he was murdered on his own doorstep by assassins who had accepted Gruenwald's accusations at face value...
Unfortunately, our defense set-up, as conceived in past Congressional economy cuts, cannot deal rapidly with small wars of the Korea type. It can deal with them, but not with sufficient speed. Unless fighting breaks out on the doorstep of one of our overseas bases, locales where the Russians are scarcely liable to start anything, we are only prepared to move in one division with any alacrity...
...NATO maneuvers to be held in the next few weeks along a 5,000-mile arc stretching from northern Norway to southern Turkey. Operation Deep Water will see some 10,000 U.S. marines make a landing on the famed Gallipoli Peninsula, guarding the Dardanelles at Russia's back doorstep. Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers...