Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Climax. The father-to-be nervously paces the hospital corridor, demanding reassurance from doctors and nurses about the coming birth of his child. Surely, the audience decides, it must be his first. But there he is in a phone booth, being fatherly to a family of two young daughters, a 17-year-old boy and pretty brunette wife. He sends them off on a seaside vacation, and there he is on the phone again, talking to another family of two young boys and a pretty blonde mother...
...tried walking two blocks toward the focal point of the riot, but "the eyes of the residents on their front porches seemed to radiate hatred. It was like walking through a corridor of statues with the kind of eyes that follow you wherever you go. Later I grew more confident and strolled the area with impunity-more or less. I made about seven trips among the rioters, perhaps to reassure myself that all this was really happening...
Riots and looting spread through the afternoon over a 10.8-sq.-mi. area of the West Side almost as far north as the Northland Shopping Center. An entire mile of Twelfth Street was a corridor of flame; firemen answering the alarms were pelted with bricks, and at one point they abandoned their hoses in the streets and fled, only to be ordered back to the fire by Cavanagh...
...Walk. For the past three years, the Maryland-National Capital Park Planning Commission has guided development around Washington along six "corridors" radiating 40 to 50 miles out from the capital. Each corridor contains about five cities, some old, some new. Parkways and strips of greenery will keep the cities from blending into each other, thus preserving each city's pride and identity. The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission is doing the same in the seven-county region that includes Milwaukee and Racine...
...water droplets large enough to drip down the threads. To test the brooms outside the laboratory, the New Jersey researchers have set up 20 in a field outside Trenton and equipped them with photoelectric devices that start their motors when a fog settles in. If they effectively clear a corridor through the fog, the devices will probably first be placed in operation along a stretch of highway five miles west of the Lincoln Tunnel that is frequently shrouded...