Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin policeman on his route. For some time nothing out of the ordinary will happen; he waves his stick at a 14-or 15-year-old prostitute who has strayed from her normal beat; or he wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged...
Next day 70 kids went on strike, parading in front of the school with large posters demanding that the school board resign. Parents begged them to stop. Wispy Miss Inez Wallace, the school principal, stood in the doorway frantically ringing her school bell. The kids ignored both parents and principal. They wrote a letter to the State Board of Education: "We are Americans, and we have some rights...
Last week, on the eve of the crucial Wisconsin primary (see U.S. AFFAIRS), Oda really went to town. On one side of his doorway he pasted a colored drawing of the Statue of Liberty. But in place of the goddess' face and diadem were the features and military cap of Douglas MacArthur. At the figure's feet, in a litter of skulls and bones, lay a trampled black dragon, "Anti-Democracy," with features unmistakably resembling Joseph Stalin's. Oda's latest ode was tacked to the opposite doorway...
Like a man who had been bludgeoned, Gaitán fell, face down, and bloodstains widened on the sidewalk. A lottery vendor, standing in the doorway, dropped his book, grabbed the assassin and shouted: "This is the man." A café patron ran from another door, smashed a chair over the gunman's head...
...side of the trophy hall is a doorway over which is inscribed in fine gold leaf," F. O. Crisler." On the other side, the legend over the arch reads in plain black paint, "Coaches." Inside the latter are the working quarters of such gridiron all-times as Bennie Oosterbaan and George Ceithaml...