Word: hallway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people and thinks twice about sending them here," says Paolillo, gesturing toward the city's cell block. Because of a state law to prevent suicides, the bars in the room are covered with plexiglass, creating a suffocating heat that lingers in the lungs even in the air-condiditioned hallway...
...when he made the decision to send Americans to the Persian Gulf, Bush did so in a conference room at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin mountains. Not far away, in a long hallway, a showcase of war mementos greets passers-by. Dominating the scene is a life-size photograph of Bush, the kind that tourists in Washington pay $5 to pose with. But Bush's version, a Christmas gift from the U.S. Army, is framed and has a dozen-odd bullet holes in its head. It was retrieved from the private pistol range of Manuel Noriega...
...Nixon compound is thus more a museum than a serious scholar's archives. The 293-seat theater continuously runs a movie called Never Give Up: Richard Nixon in the Arena. A hallway gallery displays 30 of the 56 TIME covers on which Nixon appeared. Exhibits lead visitors through the whole saga with photographs and artifacts, including a hollowed-out pumpkin, microfilm and a Woodstock typewriter (the famous items of evidence that nailed down the case against Alger Hiss), and an old woody station wagon like the one Nixon used for his 1950 race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas...
...four rooms in a dormitory at the University of Southern California look like the field office of a political campaign. The hallway is cluttered with ( stacks of paper. Phones ring incessantly. Earnest young workers scurry from room to room...
...Establish non-smoking houses. No student should be forced to live above, next to, or even on the same hallway as a smoker. Surely residential diversity is a laudable goal when it brings together different races and cultures. But bringing together smokers and non-smokers at the expense of the non-smokers' health is hardly a logical extension of this thinking. First-year dormitories already have non-smoking entryways. Non-smoking upperclass students should have the same option...