Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble finding clients when news got around that he never took a fee from the poor, even offered them handouts. Within a few months, Chippy's waiting room and the corridor outside it were jammed every weekday morning with as many as a hundred dips, degenerates, con men, pete busters, second-story types. check artists, swindlers, arsonists, rapists, murderers, and a generous assortment of poor but honest citizens in trouble...
...spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi in a corridor of the Diet building and shoved him about, grabbing his coat and yanking his necktie. "You're responsible for all this!" they shouted. "It wouldn't happen if you'd resign...
...pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
...Action." Like many utopias before it. Washington Square Village fell short of its promise. The "carports" and "self-contained shopping" promised in the brochure failed to materialize. Ten ants complained of "tinny" stoves, faulty airconditioning, erratic elevators, bugs in the basement, cracks in the plaster, rips in the corridor wall covering...
...corridor outside his bedroom door, the air force colonel commanding the Premier's personal guard waited for his 3 a.m. deadline to arrest his boss. He did not hear the phone ring at Menderes' bedside. The call-from a district mili tary commander-passed along a warning tip from Menderes' loyal army chief. General Rustu Erdelhun. Menderes dressed and tiptoed into the adjoining room, where his Finance Minister, Hasan Polatkan, slept. Together they planned their flight...