Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio announces a tornado watch for a wide corridor stretching from Abilene, Texas, to Enid, Okla. "Ha!" Moore cries, his judgment vindicated. Overhead, the underside of the clouds is heavy with moisture. Bill Moyer begins to check out the cameras...
...dispute between Egypt and Israel over whether the two nations would open their borders immediately, as Israeli Premier Menachem Begin says Sadat promised earlier this spring, or at the end of nine months, as called for by the treaty. Nonetheless, Sadat and Begin were scheduled to open an air corridor between the two countries by flying in an Egyptian 707 from Tel Aviv to Cairo and back, without landing...
...came, he says, one afternoon when he had been sitting for some hours on the cold marble floor of a corridor in the Senate Office Building, outside a closed meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I began to wonder why, at the age of 37, I was wearing out my hams waiting for somebody to come...
...tight security on the sixth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan. To one side are the offices of the chairman and the president, an area referred to by nervous underlings as "the court of the Borgias." The senior executive offices are on the other side, along a stark corridor lined with a tan carpet. With its plain white office doors and antiseptic ambience, a visitor observed last week, the place has the look of a hospital. "No," replied an NBC executive. "It is more like an insane asylum...
...twister was part of the worst tornado system to hit Texas since 1953, when 114 people were killed in Waco. One evening last week, perhaps as many as ten funnels roared down the Red River Valley, along the border of Texas and Oklahoma. The corridor is known as Tornado Alley because its springtime atmospheric conditions-warm air from the Gulf collides with cold fronts from the north-make it ripe for spawning twisters...