Word: hallways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think I'm improving these days. A little bit, at least," Lefkowitz told me as he finished his final game, defeated, and walked down the hallway to the room in which he practices. "I'm depressed these days, and I always make progress when I'm depressed and realize I have deficiencies. I can't do this, I can't do that. I may be harder on myself than I have to, maybe, but it's the only way, I'm obsessed. It's not so funny, but it gives my life meaning...
During the recesses, members of the Edelin Defense Fund stood in the hallway congratulating each other on the convincing testimony, but Thomas M. Connelly, who is active in the right-to-life movement, flitted about anxiously, drawing deeply on a habitual Chesterfield or guessing shrewdly at possible contradictions in the defendant's testimony...
Schroder's office is a sort of anteroom to her boss's; it opens onto a hallway in the modern building where she works, and her boss's office is through a door next to her desk. The room where Schroder works is neat and streamlined, with a picture window and various office accoutrements--a typewriter, filing cabinets, books, a phone. Schroder is making instant coffee from a plug-in pot, without a great deal of assurance. "See," she says, laughing, "I'm not one of those secretaries who makes coffee any more...
...mass of defendants without a commensurate increase in staff. Elsewhere, court-assigned counsel are used-"usually novices gaining experience, or court 'regulars.' " Whoever the lawyer is, he usually meets his client for the first time only minutes before the trial. The study calls this "hallway advocacy" and criticizes "most of the legal profession" and the law schools for shunning the lower criminal courts and letting them remain "invisible and disreputable." To make new lawyers aware of the problem, the center recommends that law students be hired to assist lawyers who work in such courts. It also endorses widespread...
...case of attack called for Davies to hide himself in his bathroom, the safest niche in the embassy, he remained with his staff. Gunfire raked both sides of the building. One high-velocity bullet ripped through the shutters of his office, went through three open-doors, down a long hallway and struck him in the chest. He dropped to the floor with a groan, his gas mask half off his face, blood gushing from his wound. A Maronite Cypriot receptionist, Antoinette Varnava, rushed to his side. A second bullet blew off her head...