Word: corridored
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...villages for Jordan, for Gaza, for the West Bank, for other Arab countries. Many landed in squalid refugee camps, where they live on now. The physical proximities of the land, and the hatreds that filled them, were terrifying. Arabs and Jews stared into one another's gun muzzles. The corridor from the Mediterranean coast to Jerusalem was constantly vulnerable -- and still is littered (the wreckage left as a monument and cautionary tale) with the charred shells of trucks and armored cars destroyed as they struggled to relieve the besieged Jews of Jerusalem in 1948. Three-quarters of the Jewish population...
...door to the Swallowtail opens and there stands Saionji, good man that he is, as skilled a butler who ever buttled. He takes our coats and bags and shimmers away, leading us down the corridor past gilded mirrors, Monet prints and bursting bouquets to our table in the Swallowtail's elegant tearoom. As I move to sit at our table, a second butler, named Mikami, materializes to ease me into my chair. "Good day, princess," he says to my dining companion--and not, I assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite...
...become agonal--the gulping kind of breathing movement that immediately precedes death. I knew Carol had seen this and that she knew what it meant. I said something inane and slid out the door fast, looking importantly at the papers in my hand, striving for the nice, empty corridor. But Carol came after me, needing to catch me away from the kids. Her eyes red-rimmed, she asked me where her husband was. I had noticed the cross around her neck. I said I wasn't sure where he was, but I was pretty sure where he was going...
...December 12, Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi said of the suffering endured by his country, “There is light at the end of the corridor.” Indeed, there might be; it’s just not at the end of the corridor we’re currently walking down. The Iraq Study Group report confirms what is obvious: The course of action we are on is the wrong one and demands alteration. The Bush administration should heed the advice of the Baker commission’s report and begin to gradually and systematically withdraw troops...
...major assault on one such station in central Ramadi when suddenly a mortar slammed into a door leading to an outside toilet. The yells rose even before the sound of the massive blast faded. An Iraqi policeman dangling a bloody arm yowled in Arabic as he ambled down a corridor away from the smoke and dust of the explosion. Worried shouts and the barking of orders surrounded one of the American wounded as he lay on his back in the same hall, bleeding heavily. Another wounded American sat stunned with blood flowing from his mouth and gashes on his head...