Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...littleness of these pictures is what we shall have to live for again, when the war is done. In the experience of every man, every day, it is what constitutes peace. A grandmother seated in a doorway, dreaming in retrospect; the flying step of a dancer across a stage, like a festive honeybee; a watery cloud breathing over a hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval...
...take over this table and do your own darned operations ! ' . . . Kyang Tswi and Ruth were getting along pretty well also. . . . Little Bawk and I handled the worst cases. . . . Just as we were really going to town I looked up and saw General Stilwell standing in the doorway! The room behind him was littered with the patients we had been operating on. ... Nurses were receiving patients from the trucks and giving first aid. Three Chinese casualties were standing by the wall of the operating room waiting for nurses and Friends to carry away the one who had been operated...
Sergeant Dennis Smith, R.A.F., stood in the doorway of his burning bomber and looked down on northern Holland. Behind him in the plane lay his friend, Flight Sergeant Ernest Salway, badly wounded, his parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave...
...Nanty Glo Journal had gone to press for the week. Publisher Herman Sedloff, musing in his doorway, watched a coal-dusty dog skirt a puddle, saw that the color in the Red Cross flag hanging above the middle of the street had run into a dripping, pinkish smear...
...held before the U.S. Embassy. "No extra guards were provided, however, and even the two usually stationed in front of the Embassy were absent when the gang came up. . . ." They booed the U.S., threw stones at the Ambassador and at the U.S. emblem over the Embassy doorway. At a dinner that night, Weddell agreed with other Americans in Madrid that he had no choice but to demand an apology and to ask for his recall if it was not forthcoming. When Weddell was able to see Franco a week later, his instructions from the State Department in Washington were...