Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student host was not happy to be a student host. He made it clear to me within ten minutes of our meeting that he had only volunteered his room because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room...
...toward peace moves, also seemed to be relenting, particularly after several no-nonsense conferences with U.S. Deputy Ambassador Samuel Berger. For the first time since they were inaugurated one year ago last week. South Viet Nam's President and Vice President were seen in deep conversation in the corridor that separates the "Thieu wing" from the "Kywing" of Saigon's Independence Palace. Said Ky to an aide: "What can I do? I must accept this reconciliation for the sake of the country...
...doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects it until TOO LATE because of the press of work; the rich and prideful patient who is cut down to size by the egalitarian properties of pain; even Kostoglotov's brief, touching hanky-panky in a corridor with a pretty nurse named Zoya...
...Russian Revolution. The party hacks were in full control, and neither Solzhenitsyn nor any other dissenter was permitted to mount the rostrum. So Solzhenitsyn put his protest in the form of a letter to the congress that was circulated privately among the delegates and soon dominated all the corridor discussion. It has become the credo of dissenters not only in Russia but in Eastern Europe as well. Excerpts...
...expected visitors will be the McDonnell Douglas 188, a stubby, banana-shaped ship with outsized wings. Beginning next month, it will touch down at La Guardia's STOL runway between hops to landing strips set aside in Boston and Washington for extensive testing in the crowded northeast air corridor...