Word: corridor
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...home in Denmark. Some of the fairy tales on which his enduring name rests had already found their way into translation. But few people knew that the vain, morbid, brilliantly imaginative Dane was also a visual artist of real talent, or that his work, when viewed down the corridor of a century, would come to look quite "modern...
...machine-gun fire pummeled the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel, which functioned as a journalists' headquarters in the capital. Scott, an old hand in Amman, knew all the survival rules. "The bathtub is the safest place to bed down for the night," he says. "But when the mortars start, the corridor is recommended." Visitors, he adds, are invariably "amazed at the hotel's capacity to absorb fire during the night and pick up next morning as if nothing had happened. They just sweep up the plaster and glass, and break out the cheese sandwiches...
...Harold Haley, 65, was presiding over the trial of James McClain, accused of stabbing a San Quentin prison guard while serving a sentence for burglary. Other San Quentin inmates were on hand as witnesses. Ruchell Magee, 31, was inside the courtroom; William Christmas, 27, was under guard in the corridor outside...
...school's most provocative teachers and prolific authors on constitutional law. He has also been one of the university's most outspoken critics of student militancy. When he wrote a magazine article last fall, a copy taped to the wall of a law school corridor was soon decorated with unflattering graffiti by activist student commentators. Unfazed, Bickel condemned "student revolutionaries intent on destroying the universities. To believe they are participating in parlor discussions is foolish...
...Angkor, and Kompong Speu, only 24 miles southwest of the capital, Phnom-Penh. The widening Communist attacks spread Premier Lon Nol's forces so thin that his strategists were seriously discussing a kind of grand enclave plan for the country. The Cambodian army would pull back to a corridor stretching from the seaport of Kompong Som (formerly Sihanouk-ville) to Phnom-Penh and northwest to the Thai border, tacitly ceding the rest of Cambodia to the Communists...