Word: doorsteps
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...deeply glowing than the sky above the factory was the inherited canopy of Catholicism. "Their Catholicism, like their lives, was enveloped in a heavy blanket of fatalism. . . . There might be a great deal of noisy emotionalism among my relatives over a misfortune . . . but eventually it was laid on the doorstep of Destiny. 'E tu -Destino!' That single phrase explained everything...
...judge of Nazi Germany. In the first winter of the war, when he wrote his book, he still could say that unless Germany won by June 1940, she would be beaten by November and a "fair and honorable peace" could be dictated on Adolf Hitler's doorstep. He still wrote of the "honesty of the intentions which inspired me . .. and which afforded the Nazi Government every opportunity for frank cooperation with me." He still was convinced "that the right policy was to carry conciliation to its utmost point before abandoning hope of agreement...
Thousands of news-hungry New Yorkers walked to newsplants to buy papers which were put out each day, in reduced numbers, for cash-&-carry customers. The Times, in the three days, easily sold 100,000 copies over its own doorstep to readers who walked through quiet picket lines. The News, with the city's biggest daily circulation (1,975,000), averaged 50,000 over-the-counter sales...
...York City woke up one day this week, looked on its doorstep, and found no newspaper. The New York Newspaper & Mail Deliverers Union had gone on strike...
...Great Big Doorstep is good quality but very short weight. Its jokes are funny but few, its characters likable but often dull. Its counterpart is Tobacco Road, but The Great Big Doorstep is much less racy and much less real. More than a doorstep, it needs some kind of backlog...