Word: stairway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free. The only conclusion is that he was released on orders from higher-ups in the same organization who had sent him to commit a terrorist act. A short time afterward, Nikolayev penetrated Smolny and shot Kirov as he was coming up the stairway. Kirov's bodyguard had lagged behind...
...average time that immigrants spent in the main building was short (three to five hours) but fateful. After depositing their baggage, they headed for the immense, vaulted Registry Room on the second floor. The stairway climb was called the "60-second physical" because nurses and doctors were perched at the top to weed out anyone who looked short of breath -- a possible sign of tuberculosis and heart disease. Then came more formal medical examinations and questions about the newcomers' politics. Anarchists and Bolsheviks were sent home. Others were singled out for further medical testing and possible expulsion...
Many of us remember the footsteps on the stairway at night, and the strained listening: have they come for me this time, or for my neighbor? Don't worry, they haven't come for you yet. They've come for Sakharov and for the others who refuse to be silent...
...many grand and silly traditions have died in Hollywood, but this naive take on death is alive and well. From The Green Pastures, Here Comes Mr. Jordan and Stairway to Heaven in the '30s and '40s to Field of Dreams, All Dogs Go to Heaven and Always last year, movies have pictured the afterlife not as a dead end but as a Last Chance Salon. It is an angelic resort spa where the dearly departed is only nearly departed, where a hero is given the opportunity to tidy up unfinished business back home: perhaps to release a lover from...
...above all this, taking pictures from a stairway above the bookfair. My fiancee came running up and grabbed my shoulder and told me what was going on. I ran down there to get pictures of him being taken away, because the university had denied taking people away previously...