Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, the sender of the gift refused to take it back, "under post-paid, pre-paid, or any other conditions." Then, the create in which the moose-head arrived would not fit through the entry doorway...
...Hill came home from work, and Ballard ushered the whole family into the kitchen for dinner. They were all seated at a meal of canned soup, spaghetti, chili con carne, milk and coffee when Joseph and Schuer returned. "May I come in?" asked Joseph politely, standing in the kitchen doorway. Later the men played poker. They asked Betsy to join them, but she said that she played only canasta. The robbers told her they didn't know that game. Most of the time they kept the radio tuned to dance music, and they used no profanity...
...Munich one morning last week, a little boy named Hans Koegel appeared at the doorway of the Schule in der Blu-menstrasse and nervously entered. Like other children arriving for the first day of school, he clung tightly to his mother, and it was not for several awkward moments that he finally relaxed enough to smile tentatively at his classmates. But even after he did so, his mother and teacher continued to watch him closely...
...hundred or more parents, mostly mothers in sun dresses, stopped pushing toward the door of the community hall in West University Place, a suburb of Houston. They shushed the toddlers hanging on to their hands, or the infants in their arms, and bowed their heads. At the doorway the Rev. Thomas W. Sumners, president of the Greater Houston Council of Churches, raised his hand and intoned...
...When the doorway was cleared, Ruz found that the room measured 26 ft. by 13 ft., with a ceiling 19 ft. high. The stonework was beautifully fitted and some of it was polished like marble. The walls were covered with stucco bas-reliefs of gorgeously costumed priests. Dominating the hidden chamber was the altar, built of two carved stone blocks. On the altar was a "Palenque Cross": a stone carving of the Mayan tree of life...