Word: doorstep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother had skin cancer, his two sisters have had their lower colons removed. "I have a big hole in my chest, and I'm sterile, and I have only 90% of my lung capacity," he says. Bailie lays his family's misfortunes, rightly or wrongly, on Hanford's doorstep. "Their business is to make bombs," he says. "Mine is to farm. I don't care what they do there as long as they keep it there...
Borges said the campaign printed four times as many stickers as probable voters, then delivered them in four ways--once by mail, once in leaflets, once via volunteer on every district doorstep, and once outside the polling places on election...
...decades later, you find out. After building a lucrative law practice and serving two very successful terms in the state senate, you decide to make a run for Congress. You may have forgotten that you passed out on your favorite section leader's doorstep with a nasty rejection note taped to your forehead, but apparently your roommates and your section leader could clearly recall the night, your advances, even the hand gestures and anatomical descriptions you used. In fact, they were generous enough to recount the story repeatedly--for every television station and newspaper that asked...
Others fear that the world will become inured to the country's repeated calls for help. Observed a rural-development expert, Khwaja Shamsul Huda: "Bangladesh cries wolf too often. But this year the wolf is really on our doorstep...
Unlike many of his fellow street people, Brown is not completely indigent. He gets $637 a month disability from the government for problems arising from his alcoholism, washes up every night at a Santa Monica church (where he sleeps on the doorstep), and keeps his possessions -- photo albums, letters and graduation certificates -- neatly tucked away inside a black vinyl tote bag. The adopted son of a well-off Washington family, Brown says he attended a military academy in Virginia, spent a semester in college and then joined the Navy and later became a signalman. But when the family finances collapsed...