Word: foyer
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...school, which is in summer recess, a foyer sign reads WHERE GREAT MINDS COME TOGETHER. But in the office, where the black principal and the white principal sit 30 ft. apart, each said he did not know how the other felt about the controversy. "We've known for a while that the policy has to change," said Harold Kinchelow, for 24 years the black principal. But he was defensive about the status quo, which does, after all, keep two principals on the payroll. Theron Long, for 27 years the white principal, was more direct. "How can it be racist when...
Charles used an ATM foyer as a refuge. Local laws limited stays at the homeless shelter, so he went there only on the coldest nights. A waitress at a sandwich shop let him drink coffee during freezing evenings even when he soiled himself and insulted her customers. Townspeople marveled at his resilience...
...Falls, he started talking with the very cynical manager of the honeymoon hotel where he was staying. He was fascinated by the stories of "brides and bridegrooms getting out of their limousines directly from their wedding and having these incredible knock-down, drag-out fights right in the hotel foyer before they'd even gone up to their room." The hotel also featured what Rosenberg termed "very watered-down fantasy theme rooms...
Personally, I had no idea where yellow was going, but I knew where it had been. My bedroom. My foyer. And the master bath, even the guest room. In fact, a recent freshening of our apartment decor had left it awash in pale, burnished aureoles of ocher and flax and citron and other members of the yellow family, all of them, amazingly, on speaking terms. Having surrendered palette control to my spouse, who in turn capitulated to professional direction, I suddenly found myself surrounded by--and bonding with--a spectrum of hues I had always held in special contempt...
...Fuller House projects a homey atmosphere. When people walk into the foyer, they encounter a large water container filled with pennies for an equipment fundraiser...