Word: doorways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very nice sort of guy.) That afternoon, while I was in class, about 400 students picked up tree branches cut from the fallen trees and, like Birnam Wood advancing on Macbeth, dragged them to the tower, where they stacked the limbs in front of the doorway. The doors had already been locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor's closer in the tower which brought seven fire trucks. They put it out with one fire extinguisher.) When the students started banging on his outside door, Hackerman decided to keep cool...
...agents, dressed in chinos and sweaters, entered the shabby air-conditioning repair shop and arranged to take it over for the day. Scratching peepholes in the painted-over storefront window, they squinted patiently at the doorway across the East Village street. Pasted next to the peepholes were pictures of the suspects, some snapped surreptitiously at peace rallies by other FBI agents in the guise of press photographers. A crackling radio brought terse reports from about a dozen other teams staked out near by. Finally the agents spotted their prey and set a dragnet into operation...
Immediately pickets formed at each of the entrances, moving swiftly with arms linked. Inside the building, about ten people-the I-Labs are open 24 hours a day an shifts change at 8 a. m.-could be seen in the doorway watching picketers through metal mesh window guards...
...piece of plywood was brought and nailed over the doorway. "O. K. Let's get out of here," said the Chief Deputy Sheriff, and the police got in their trucks and drove away...
Herman Stein, owner of a jewelry store on Madison St. stood in the doorway of his shop with a pipe after demonstrators broke one of his windows...