Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi in a corridor of the Diet building and shoved him about, grabbing his coat and yanking his necktie. "You're responsible for all this!" they shouted. "It wouldn't happen if you'd resign...
...Action." Like many utopias before it. Washington Square Village fell short of its promise. The "carports" and "self-contained shopping" promised in the brochure failed to materialize. Ten ants complained of "tinny" stoves, faulty airconditioning, erratic elevators, bugs in the basement, cracks in the plaster, rips in the corridor wall covering...
...corridor outside his bedroom door, the air force colonel commanding the Premier's personal guard waited for his 3 a.m. deadline to arrest his boss. He did not hear the phone ring at Menderes' bedside. The call-from a district mili tary commander-passed along a warning tip from Menderes' loyal army chief. General Rustu Erdelhun. Menderes dressed and tiptoed into the adjoining room, where his Finance Minister, Hasan Polatkan, slept. Together they planned their flight...
Parliamentary democracy. Japanese-style, makes even the convening of the Diet an occasion for free-for-alls in which any number may play. When the bell sounded for the showdown session, 200 opposition Deputies massed outside the office of wispy Speaker Ichiro Kiyose, 76, blocking the corridor so solidly that he could not get out to call the session to order. Kiyose called the police. On signal, 500 cops entered, picked up the Socialists and carried them kicking and struggling from Kiyose's door. The Speaker made a run for the chamber only to be met there by more...