Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corridors on three floors will be 4 to 5 inches narrower, when the new steel beams, which will rest on concrete piers in the basement, are finally in place...
Communist Interior Minister Teohari Georgescu's home-grown version of the Soviet MVD snatched some 5,000 persons from offices, homes and streets. They were not all Peasant Party members. But they were mostly Maniu followers. In the prison basement of the white marble ministry they got ari MVD-style* rubber hosing with one purpose: to extort confessions exposing a National Peasant Party plot against Kremlin Puppet Petru Groza and the Soviet Union...
...black sedan with Government license plates pulled into the rear parking lot. Out stepped a tall, tanned man with a brown manila envelope under his arm. At the basement reception desk he dutifully presented his rectangular badge, bearing his picture and name: David Lilienthal, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
...every evening David Lilienthal leaves his office, checks out at the basement desk and steps into his black sedan, a manila envelope of homework under his arm. Around the Public Health Service building the floodlights flick on. Along the terraces, the armed sentries take up their patrol...
Last week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during...