Word: passageway
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...move or speak. All her words were in her shocked eyes. The rest of the family-Papa, who had put his savings into this farm, Mama, a scraggly woman who was calmly assembling the dejeuner, a leggy boy of 16 or so and a baby girl-chattered in the passageway, and fell silent only when a soldier passed or a shell burst...
...Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci; in modern times, jewelry shops have succeeded its Renaissance goldsmiths. Over the bridge runs a covered passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace Museum...
...side, and the moment I stepped out on deck I saw the German raider. She was broadside on, so close I could count her bridge decks. . . . Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft the funnel, and as I raced back to the cabin the passageway behind me heaved and filled with smoke...
...book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
Craning his neck to get a ringside view from the fighters' aisle at a Mexico City bullfight, inquisitive Biographer Emil Ludwig got the shock of his life when an angry bull lunged out of the ring, pursued him hotly down the passageway...