Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble stairway which winds around a long chandelier chain goes up to the Keats Memorial Room, and to a long corridor occupied by collections of Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, and other modern authors. In the other direction, the stairs wind down to the Department of Graphic Arts, the seminar room, and the administrative offices...
...Beachhead Consolidated. At 5 p.m. he was three blocks away in the Los Angeles Republican headquarters in the Spring Arcade Building. It took him ten minutes to get through the milling throng that jammed the corridor before the entrance. Once inside, he bounded onto a desk and spoke: "When I was here the last time in 1941, I had come to speak about something close to my heart. I wanted to convince you that we must give aid to England in our common fight against Hitler. At that time many of my own party members carried placards outside...
...prelate and his cellmates, four Japanese criminals, spent a good part of each day mashing mosquitoes against the concrete walls of their 9-by-5½-ft. cell. It helped keep down the mosquitoes and it helped pass the time. Once a day the Bishop was escorted to a corridor washbasin - cold water and no soap. One morning a woman prisoner smilingly offered him a piece of soap. The gesture restored his waning faith in human nature. Coarse rice, a piece of pickle, vegetable soup and tepid water were the daily fare, but Bishop Heaslett had the privilege of having...
Gradually he became aware of a brass band playing faintly in the distance. He could not make out the tune. Then, in the corridor outside his apartment, he heard a muffled clomping. Opening the door, he beheld a large and handsome White Horse. "Yes?" said the Senator. The White Horse made no reply. Instead, drawing a watch from its vest pocket, it muttered, "Oh dear, I shall be too late," stepped into an open elevator shaft, and disappeared. Unhesitatingly the Senator followed...
Bolivia has often dreamed of getting a corridor to the sea. Said Foreign Minister Tomás Manuel Elío: "Full entry into the war will simplify discussions at the peace table after the conflict has ended...