Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, a pert young blonde stuck her head through a rinkside doorway at Philadelphia's Arena and called to a friend across...
...Manhattan Adlai Stevenson sat at the desk in his Savoy-Plaza Hotel room and labored over a speech for Minnesota delivery later in the week. Through a connecting doorway, Stevenson could see staffers huddled around a television set (its audio turned low so as not to disturb him, watching Arthur Godfrey's morning program and awaiting the network break-in that would bring word of President Eisenhower's press conference). Until the news broke, Stevenson believed that Ike would not run again. Yet Stevenson was the candidate for the Democratic nomination most favorably affected by Eisenhower...
...door of the hut where the Europeans lay sleeping. Abd el Krim stole into another hut, shot the French commander and his top sergeant dead in their beds. Wakened by the noise, the other soldiers jumped up, grabbed their rifles. The two Moslem noncoms mowed them down in the doorway. Before relief could arrive, the rebels withdrew, their mules loaded with a hundred rifles, a dozen machine guns and ammunition. Sixty-five of the company's Moslem riflemen went with them. Twenty rebels and eleven of the defenders were dead. Of the survivors, only 15 Moslems had remained loyal...
...state officials approached the bleak, cinder-block house, a hostile crowd stared at them coldly. Waiting for them in the doorway stood Vera Black, a tiny, short-haired woman of 42 and one of Leonard Black's three wives. In the house behind Vera, her eight children waited, dressed in their Sunday best...
...penance seems mild in comparison to some others. True, she is occasionally heard screaming in the night, but more often the fire-gutted shell of nearby Rosewell plantation is the scene of ghostly revelries, with the shades of colonial governors, young bloods and belles moving through the pedimented doorway amid flickering candelabras and the sounds of violins and harpsichords in the black of the moon...