Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...B.14 (John Foster Dulles, Friend or Foe?). Following directions to the letter, I find myself, after a maze of passages, in front of a little embroidered curtain in a recess between bookshelves. Drawing the curtain aside, I see a little red door, with a peephole in it. I knock, and the peephole peeps. After a moment, the door opens, and a beautiful oriental girl in a short-sleeved clinging white kimono asks me what I'm selling. Now, one of these occupational scholars would handle the situation all wrong; that's where my Lamont experience comes in handy. I just...
...Cairo's daily Al Misr, Columnist Mamoud Abdel Moneim deplored the silly way Egyptian women have been acting ever since Cinemactor Robert Taylor hit town. Moaned Mamoud: "They have found excuses to knock at his door . . . reserve restaurant tables next to his . . . They have been observed making provocative gestures with cigarettes drooping from their lips . . . Will [Robert Taylor] think there are only flighty women in Egypt? Are there no men to keep them in check...
...tried to be a dutiful husband and father. He put his royalties into a farm, but he could not put his back and heart into it. With an eye on his hungry family and an ear to the creditor's knock, he took the odiously regarded job of exciseman, but gave it a Robin Hood touch: "I recorded every Defaulter, but at the Court, I myself begged off every poor body that was unable to pay, which seeming candour gave me so much implicit credit with the Hon. Bench that . . . they gave me ample vengeance on the rest...
Krock sent Crimson linguists scrounging through foreign dictionaries to translate his wire, but when it was finally deciphered it was found that he too spurned the Crime's offer. "As we used to remind one another in Nassau Hall," Knock wrote. "Ledigheid is honkers moodier en van dieted voile brooder." (Idleness is hunger's mother, and of thieves it is full brother...
Lines of pickets still shuffled by the gates of plants in Los Angeles, Fresno, Calif, and Columbus, Ohio. But the strikers were going back to work in growing numbers, despite the attempts of pickets to knock or kick dents in their cars. North American reported that 10,332 of the men were back on the job again, turning out better than one plane a day. This was about 31% of those who had walked out, well above the 25% figure that usually means a lost strike. The U.A.W. disputed North American's tally, said the company padded the list...