Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roosevelt Room and pop into the President's office. More aides than I have ever seen before stood in the corridors, mingling and watching others run back and forth. Frank Moore slipped into the Oval Office at 9:30. Two of the President's speech-writers huddled in a doorway. 'You tell me what's going on,' said one official as he left the West Wing. 'I haven't got the slightest idea what they are doing, and I was just in there...
...Moore spins his wheels, and the chase is on again. In Fairview, 30 miles west of Enid, several pickup trucks are parked along the road. Next to them, lanky farmers in caps and blue jeans stare at the turbulent, darkening sky. Women carrying grocery bags peer from the doorway of the IGA market. A handful of motorists watch from the refuge of an APCO gas station down the street...
THEY ADVERTISED this book: "The Sixties died on April 19, 19 6." Phil Ochs dangling from his belt jammed in the bathroom doorway; it marked the end, we are told, of an era that blew away with his ashes...
...gesture was eloquent. Emerging from the doorway of Air Force One on the floodlit tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base last week, an exhausted Jimmy Carter greeted several thousand welcomers by flinging open his arms. It was a movement that oddly combined a sense of triumph with just a hint of martyrdom. Said Carter: "I believe that God has answered our prayers...
...visitor begins to sense some of the change when a bus from Wellesley, what the unrefined at Dartmouth call a "meat wagon," pulls up outside the Hanover Inn. A cute, brown-haired girl hops out of the doorway, her loosely tied sleeping bag unrolling all over her arms. "Not too optimistic, eh?" a passing male snickers, suggestively eying the bag. "Maybe," she answers lightly. But she can't quite pull it off. Between the sleeping bag and her uncertainty, a thin red blush swims up over her face. Clearly, life was easier in some ways when girls were expected...