Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington had asked the fascinating question ever since the Supreme Court feud flared openly last June-what would happen when Justices Hugo Black and Robert Jackson again came face to face? Last week, after days of ignoring each other, they finally met, in a narrow office corridor...
Technically speaking, there is only one building in the Village, since over 2 1-2 miles of corridor connects one extremity with another and a determined sort of person could get to every building without going outside save to cross the three streets that slash the development from north to south. Possibly to give the Villagers a sense of "belonging" the three streets are named Eliot, Dunster, and Lowell. The whole of the Village is contained within a looping road that is at once the perimeter and the only means of getting in or out; a gate, guarded...
...discovered at once by the sentinel who watched and heard him make an odd noise and twitch," Andrus contined. "The sentinel called the doctor and chaplain who were in the corridor and who found him dying...
...Keynoter Winston Churchill in his cerise-&-cream, modernistic suite. After hours of discussion, morning found cigar-smoking Churchill sitting up in bed, dictating a new and more soothing speech in 500-word blocks to two secretaries in relays.* That afternoon, while 4,000 people jammed every balcony and corridor, Senior Oracle Winston Churchill gave the young rebels a few answers, then cannily diverted their attention to subjects on which they could happily agree. Clutching his coat lapel with one hand and stabbing the air with the other, he strode into his 6,000-word speech. First, to a tremendous ovation...
Caricatures of the Past. Most formal sessions were held in the Athénée (birthplace of the Red Cross). Corridor conferences were held in a Geneva restaurant whose walls were hung with malicious caricatures of statesmen of the Europe which had just died. Cigaret smoke spiraled spectrally across figures of Laval, Briand, Chamberlain, Mussolini, as the intellectuals discussed the mistakes of the past and tried to lay a groundwork for a new pan-European peace of the mind...