Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stroke of 5 last Thursday afternoon, doors parted in the ornate council chamber of Geneva's Palais des Nations, and a four-man Egyptian delegation marched solemnly into the cavernous chamber. Minutes later, from another doorway, appeared three Israeli representatives. Face to face for the first time in 15 months, representatives of the two longtime Middle East antagonists took seats at tables carefully spaced 25 feet apart. Between them, at a third table, sat Finnish General Ensio Siilasvuo, commander of United Nations peace-keeping forces in the Middle East...
Maggie MacLean was standing in the tall, wide doorway of Newell Boat House, just at the line that divides the vast room stacked with boats and oars from the grey pier that slopes gently down to the Charles River. Like the other ten women who stood in a semicircle listening to their coach. Harry Parker, she was wearing gym shorts and a tank top--hers was grey, with blue letters that said "U.S.A. Rowing Team Camp." But unlike the others, on her large, strong hands she wore protective leather gloves...
Giant Rolls. The A.F.P. editor died of stomach and leg injuries suffered when a bomb exploded just after 1 a.m. in the doorway of his suburban Paris apartment-a bomb that French police are certain was intended for the other Bernard Cabanes. Minutes after the explosion, an anonymous caller told a local radio station, "We have just blasted the home of Cabanes of Le Parisien Libéré." The newspaper, largest morning daily in France, has been wracked since March by periodic strikes of a heavily Communist printers' union, the Fédération du Livre...
...marching and chanting crowd hushed expectantly and clustered around the doorway as Buckley approached them with the court order. Buckley left when SAC members around the doorway told him that Perez, Hernandez, and Rothbard were not in the building and delivered the orders to their unoccupied rooms
...Just before midnight on Christmas Eve, Pope Paul VI stood before it and tapped it three times with a silver hammer. With that, workmen lowered the massive door on pulleys, chunks of broken masonry fell, and prelates washed the threshold and doorposts. After a prayer, Paul walked through the doorway into St. Peter's as cardinals, bishops, nuns, priests and lay people streamed in behind him. The Holy Year of 1975, with its theme of "renewal and reconciliation," had begun...