Word: doorstep
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...Though Edgar Rice Burroughs' social values may be archaic, they are far from extinct in contemporary times. The cult of the English gentleman is as much admired in the U.S. as over there. Perhaps we wouldn't want such conditions on our doorstep, but they suit our daydreams. Burroughs creates a homogeneous escape world where many interesting perils are always successfully overcome by the resourceful hero. Everything is pleasant-even the unpleasantness...
...choice of 59% of the "likely voters" across the country, with 31% backing Barry Goldwater and 10% undecided. In the East, Johnson led with 70% to Goldwater's 19%, in the Midwest with 59% to Goldwater's 30% . In the Far West, on the conservative doorstep of Barry's own home country, Gallup found Lyndon out in front 62% to 33%. Only in the South did Gallup give Goldwater the edge, by a margin...
...capital's doorstep. One night last week they opened a barrage on the army post of Vinhloc, only five miles west of the city. The crump of guerrilla mortars and government artillery shook buildings at Tan Son Nhut Airport on the city's edge, and flares dropped from patrol planes were clearly visible from downtown Saigon...
SAIGON, South Vietnam, April 10--Communist guerrillas faded into hiding south of Saigon tonight after killing more than 50 Vietnamese soldiers and a U.S. pilot in two days of bloody attacks. Three other Americans were wounded in fighting that brought the war to this capital's doorstep...
...funds for investing in real estate and local businesses. Even Red China is profiting by Hong Kong's prosperity: since it sells more than 20 times as much to the colony as it buys, it earns much of its foreign exchange through the capitalist outpost at its doorstep...