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Word: doorway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jackson finally arrives at 101st Street, the crowd has swelled to about 200, and the candidate stands in the doorway of one of the buildings, holding the hands of children form the neighborhood...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., SPECIAL TO THE COMMON | Title: Jackson Courts New York Minority Vote | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...implications if I can hardly presume the intent. A janitor may have removed it for noncompliance with housing codes, unaware of its significance. Yet, I reject this as unlikely; it was legally hung on poster clay which remains in place, and few janitors would so boldly invade a private doorway. Nor was it a likely candidate for unft. (Who has underworld connections in a $10 mezuza market?) Such a motive seems andesesvedly optimistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bigotry | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...precise, almost finicky writing, and a dark humor that accentuates the drumbeats of disappointment. In "Coach," the father eagerly tries to tell his daughter Daphne that he is, quite possibly, going to be made coach of the college varsity football team--but Daphne passes by him in the doorway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Travels | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

...weapons' magazines, the vehicle crashed through a wrought-iron gate (5) and into the Marine compound. Either bouncing over or thrusting aside a single 18-in. sewer pipe (6) that was supposed to protect the entrance, the truck crashed through or went around a flimsy guardhouse in the doorway (7), perhaps running down the two Marines on duty, and into the lobby. An instant later, the driver detonated his lethal cargo. The dash from the parking lot was over in a matter of seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visibility vs. Vulnerability | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, gape and be gaped at. Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have of getting in. We discourage the Bagel Nosh-polyester group." And a lot of other folks besides. John F. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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