Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months he was locked in a windowless cell on the Dallas County Jail's Corridor 6-M. A "suicide watch" jailer looked in on him round the clock; a single naked light bulb glared endlessly over his cot. He could not tell night from day. He devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with...
...reminder of which is the club's emblem: a naked girl slapping a tambourine. Back in 1893, the Vaudeville Club, as it was then known, leased a room in the old Met. It was common for members to slip out of a performance of Faust, dash across the corridor to the clubroom and watch acts like "Papinta and Her Novel Chromatic and Serpentine Dances." The nightly vaudeville show became increasingly risque until a police raid obliged the members reluctantly to forgo Papinta for Pagliacci...
...symbolism and reality do not always coincide. Although the new bridge shortens the autobahn between Munich and West Berlin by 21 miles, it provides no link whatsoever between East and West Germany: the autobahn runs through a sealed corridor from which motorists cannot stray. Its inauguration, moreover, had to be accomplished without ceremony because the two governments refused to meet each other to open it. Bridge or no bridge, the truth is that the two Germanys seem to be drawing farther apart. For the first time since 1962, the Berlin Wall remained closed for Christmas this year: Bonn and Pankow...
Rural areas, always strong for the Machine, no longer have the strength they used to. Now, most of Virginia's voters live in cities and suburbs--before 1960 most voters were rural. 65 per cent of the Old Dominion's population lives in the urban corridor which slashes diagonally across the state from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., on south through Fredericksburg to Richmond, and then down into the densely-populated complex around the Navy installations at Norfolk. At the same time that the Byrd Organization has trouble in this area, its traditional margins in Southside have been severely...
Deputy U.S. Marshals seized Reed and dragged him bodily across the courtroom and into a corridor leading to the U.S. Marshal's office. Later, 20 sympathizers filed out of the courtroom singing "We Shall Overcome," after marshals moved two of Reed's friends from the sitting positions the had taken in front of the courtroom rail...