Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intrigues, however, upset the opening session of the crucial strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Austrian Foreign Minister Kurt Waldheim got things rolling. At the main doorway of Vienna's sumptuous Belvedere Palace, he grasped the arms of the two chief negotiators, Gerard C. Smith of the U.S. and Russia's Vladimir Semyonov, and strode into the massive red and brown Marmorsaal (marble hall). As Waldheim noted in his welcoming speech, it was in the same hall, 15 years ago, that the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union signed the Austrian...
...blew her a kiss from the doorway. "And when 'La Primavera' is done, we will get married," he said, and split for his work...
...demonstrators then marched out of the Yard and down Oxford St, to Pierce Hall gathering on the second floor outside the room where the interviews were being conducted. Jones stood in the doorway to prevent the protestors from entering...
With 1,000 students and street people shouting "Burn, baby, burn!" youths set fire to piles of debris and shoved them through the Bank of America doorway. Some of the students argued that the attack was senseless. The burners, unable to articulate their reasons, answered that the bank was a "symbol of corporate corruption...
...Subway Samaritan A man slumps in a doorway and lies there unattended as pedestrians scurry past. A child is beaten unconscious while residents in adjoining apartments turn a deaf ear to his shrieks. Six years ago, Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death in New York City while 38 of her neighbors, roused by her screams, watched or listened and did nothing. Such incidents feed the popular notion, especially in big cities, that the average citizen is not prepared to go to the aid of his fellow...