Word: doorways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second Dow demonstration was a mess. The great political issue was whether or not to push William Bentick-Smith out of the doorway he filled at Massachusetts Hall. Bentick-Smith was not doing anything unusual. Massachusetts Hall has been locked to undergraduates for 300 years. And even if they could get inside--even if this time they could have entered the sanctum of the Administration--they would not know what to do with themselves...
...blade, and I swung at her. I tried to stop myself when the handle hit her on the back of her head. She fell forward on her hands and knees and screamed for Dad. As I started to run from the room, I slipped on the rug in the doorway and ran into my father, Dad fell to his knees, the bayonet still in him." Young Fred next beat his mother some more, then loaded both bodies into the car and dropped them into a nearby stream. After that, he went roller-skating. The cold water revived his not-quite...
...power of the imagination becomes the important thing. In "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Terris," a beneficent secret society of scholars formulates, over three centuries, an imaginary planet. The 40-volume encyclopedia describing Tlon--man's most vast undertaking--is discovered in a Memphis, Tenn., library in 1944. Tlon contains a "doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death" and has a word for "the vague tremulous rose color we see with our eyes closed." The system's imaginative power allows it to replace the real world--to imagine itself into existence...
...Arrow Street look like something out of Blow Up. The main studio with its vaulted 20-foot ceiling is painted white. It is both cluttered and spacious, with cut-out magazine pictures, photographs of African natives, and brightly-colored design sketches all over the walls. Hanging above the doorway is a huge blueprint of the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts, which Freeman and his comrades are turning into a World War II Memorial...
...hastily formed posse found him in his doorway, armed and snarling defiance: "Come and get me. I'm not taking any more of their bull." Although Held's brother-in-law pleaded with him to surrender and bullets shattered his shoulder, leg and right wrist, Held switched the .38 to his left hand, firing until it, too, was smashed. Taken to a guarded hospital bed, he never regained full consciousness, dying later from the complications of his many wounds. He left behind a trail of six people wounded, six others dead...