Word: anterooms
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...dispossessed. Many factories, even though intact, would be "out of commission." That the U.S. industrial colossus could be so paralyzed is incredible but, unfortunately, true. Confronted with the overwhelming magnitude of the fallout hazard, the Federal Civil Defense Administration must feel that it has been admitted to the Anteroom to Hell. Thus it is a good time for a thorough housecleaning in the civil defense establishment. An inventory should be made to see what measures are in the hopeless or useless category...
Some time after 11p.m., at the command of an offstage voice, the receiving line broke up and debutantes arid their escorts retired to an anteroom to prepare for the big moment. The scene was something like the prelude to a mass wedding, with mothers tearfully primping their daughters and fathers making appropriate comments ("My little girl's all grown up"). But after a while the prides of parents left their daughters and drifted up to their boxes, the Meyer Davis orchestra struck up The March of the Toys, and the formal presentation began...
...aside and got in behind him. "There is no room for you," the generals told Mrs. Ali. "You go straight home in another car and wait for your husband. We are taking him to the Governor General's palace." At the palace Ali was hustled protesting into an anteroom and was brusquely told: "Wait here...
...chamber still decked in mourning, 120 West Berlin assemblymen met one day last week to elect a successor to the late great Ernst Reuter, mayor of West Berlin. Waiting in the anteroom behind a brace of glowing cigars were two rival candidates: Deputy Mayor Walther Schreiber, 69, a Christian Democrat, and Socialist Otto Suhr, 59, chairman of the assembly. The votes were cast and counted, and for the first time in three years, the "great coalition" that united Berlin behind Reuter's Socialists broke asunder. The right-wing parties (Christian Democrats and Free Democrats) split with their Socialist allies...
...Mexico's governor one day this week, picture hangers were hard at work. Under the supervision of Dr. Reginald Fisher, art director of Santa Fe's Museum of New Mexico, they carefully placed 14 paintings on the walls of the governor's private office and its anteroom. Next morning, when Governor Edwin Mechem and his staff arrived, everybody had a good look and a lively discussion...