Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, the Texas University registrar opened the doors of the new interim "law school," stalked in to await students. A steady stream of University officials marched in after him, and a group of curious Texans clustered in the corridor to see what would happen. Only one prospective student showed up, and he did not register...
...some schools they looked like rehearsals for chaos. Bobby-soxers roamed from room to room, singing, cheering and shrieking. Some scrawled on blackboards: "Teacher is a scab." As soon as a harassed schoolmarm managed to herd one group of revelers into a classroom, another gang careened into the corridor. Policemen tried to talk the pupils into going home, but the kids were having too much fun in school...
...Bulgaria soon, Moscow was not taking chances on any bad Bulgarian guessing in the future. Thirty thousand Russian settlers had already moved into Bulgaria, and more were on the way. Eventually, the largest group would settle in the Dobruja area, along Bulgaria's Black Sea coast-shortest land corridor from the U.S.S.R. to the Dardanelles...
Along this same corridor lies a chunk of Rumania. Since last summer, Russians have been arriving in large numbers. Rumania's vital Black Sea port, Constanta, now has some 50,000 of them-as many Russians as there are Rumanians. They have their own schools, shops, theaters and restaurants. In most Rumanian cities King Michael's photo is flanked by those of Rumanian Premier Petru Groza and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin; in Constanta bars, shops and hotels, Stalin's photo gets the center...
Next night Greek Leftists, supported by the Russians on the Commission, pressed for a second intervention for six more condemned men. While the Commission deliberated, Kyrou-all set for a party, in white tie & tails-nervously paced the corridor. At 11 p.m. the Commission finally decided to ask the U.N. Security Council back in New York for guidance. Meanwhile, the Greek Government executed the six. It then complained formally that the Commission had interfered in Greek domestic affairs by requesting a reprieve for the first five. The Security Council, by unanimous vote (with Russia and Poland abstaining), instructed the Commission...