Word: corridored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet handed down its decision on the final, watered-down draft, Weizmann was waiting outside in the corridor. Suddenly his friend, Sir Mark Sykes, burst out of the cabinet room waving the Balfour Declaration. "Dr. Weizmann," he cried, "it's a boy." "Well," reminisces Weizmann, "I did not like the boy at first. He was not the one I expected...
...generously ... a little better able to care for the children they will have, than their parents were to care for them-lest the generations of those maimed in childhood, each making the next in its own image, create upon the darkness, like mirrors locked face to face, an infinite corridor of despair...
...dark corridor, a single candle glows. Only the candle keeps you from walking straight into the wall where it is held by a clumsy piece of wire, for here the corridor turns in a sharp L. Around the corner, you find yourself blindly stumbling over people's feet, and hear voices whispering. A voice hoarse with age or cold: "From Greifswald you come? Last night?" A woman's voice, dull and flat: "Not much, about 60 marks left." A man's voice, strong with impatience: "How long must we wait? Do they think we are cattle...
...tiny office at the end of the dark corridor, they are greeted by Helmuth Rosenow-a tall, thin man in his late 303. In Nazi days he was a courier in the Socialist underground, traveling regularly between Prague and Berlin...
...more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...