Word: corridore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wallace was arrested on July 28 after an encounter with a Farmville policeman in a courthouse corridor. Four misdemeanor charges were filed against the law student, and he was also charged with felonious assault and resisting arrest...
...without food or water for 14 hours. "It was impossible to sleep," recalls Wilde. "In a cell next door there seemed to be a madman who yelled all night. It is amazing how soon one becomes conscious of sound in jail. A rattle of keys, a footstep in the corridor, a car stopping outside bring one immediately to attention because perhaps it means release...
Massive or Flexible. For the record, the agenda was crowded with distant general matters: What next in disarmament talks with Russia? What meaning for the West in the Sino-Soviet split? But in a kind of corridor warfare and in separate bilateral meetings, some factions tried to maneuver the U.S. into giving Europe more say in the use of the H-bomb, and others looked for ways to frustrate Charles de Gaulle's force de dissuasion...
...that it was not just amour they were after. Sure enough, soon after Cynthia and her lover entered the darkened office, the door burst open and the watchman studied them under a powerful flashlight. Finally, he blurted, "I beg your pardon, madame, a thousand times," and fled down the corridor. Before going to work on the safe, Cynthia had taken the simple precaution of removing all her clothes...
...many ways the Palestine of the Old Testament is the world's most in teresting focus of early history. It cannot match the magnificent ruins of Egypt and Mesopotamia, but it was always a corridor between those great centers and was deeply affected by both of them. Armies from east and west marched back and forth, and with them came languages and art forms, gods and ideas. This cross-fertilization may explain why the small, poor land of Palestine is the source of two of the world's great religions, Christianity and Judaism, and sacred to still...