Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unashamedly he ran, threw himself in a doorway. The queue was wiped...
London's busy gossipers rumored that a postwar candidate for the House of Commons, inevitable doorway to British politics, may be General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. Monty seems to lean toward the third-string Liberal Party, but either of the two bigger ones (Conservative, Labor) would be happy to sign...
...Rolls Royce popped a peppery dowager. She crossed the sidewalk to the sedate five:story pile, a block from Government House in Buenos Aires. Two policemen, instead of the usual two liveried flunkeys, stood in the high-arched doorway. Head high, shoulders back, Doňa Zelmira Paz de Anchorena turned, walked stiffly back to her limousine. She had come to see with her own eyes what she and many another Argentine had believed impossible: La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, had been forced to close for the first time in its 74 years...
...fought Germans with rifle fire from room to room until the last enemies were chased out. Then two potato-masher grenades flicked in through the window. Two Americans were wounded. By the time another had sprung to the window, the Germans had disappeared into a doorway only ten yards away...
...roof had crashed upon the dancers. Fires licked over the ruins. Rescue squads fashioned a runway over plaster and planks and bodies to get out the mangled living and dead. Those who had stood at the milk-bar counter had been killed. Dead and injured sprawled in every neighboring doorway...