Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard di Franco, 36, was shaving before going to work in his Portland, Me., restaurant. Standing in the doorway, Ferdinand, his large three-year-old St. Bernard, looked on. Di Franco leaned down to pat the dog's head. Without warning, the animal leaped forward and Di Franco felt his face gripped between Ferdinand's powerful, crushing jaws as his pet tore a long gash in his right cheek that took scores of stitches to repair...
...Welfare. Moments later she reaffirmed Perón's economic policy, having earlier retained José Gelbard as Economics Minister. The next day she appeared at Buenos Aires' cathedral for a Te Deum commemorating the 158th anniversary of Argentina's independence. As she appeared in the doorway, carrying the presidential baton and wearing a theatrical black cape, the crowd spontaneously cheered...
...military strategists, however, there is one drawback to clearing the canal. It will reduce from 11,000 miles (via the Cape of Good Hope) to only 2,200 miles the Soviet navy's supply lines from its Black Sea bases to the Straits of Malacca, the doorway to the Pacific and Japan...
...common people could set up tents where they damn well pleased in the limitless domains of Big Mama because the only one who could oppose them had begun to rot beneath a lead plinth. The only thing left then was for someone to lean a stool against a doorway to tell this story, lesson and example for future generations, so that not one of the world's disbelievers would be left who did not know the story of Big Mama because tomorrow, Wednesday, the garbage men will come and will sweep up the garbage from the funeral forever and ever...
...Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, who was considered to be the most likely G.O.P. candidate. Wallace has not only the white vote; he is also expected to win at least half the black ballots-an astounding turnabout for the man who in another era stood in the school doorway in Tuscaloosa to keep black students from entering...