Word: stairways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese had been piped aboard four minutes before MacArthur made his appearance. The first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...
...sitting at the piano when Imogene burst in. The Kovacs brothers were a little startled. She demanded to know what they were doing there Al said: "I'm waiting for Faith," and walked toward the stairway. As James Kovacs remembered it later, there was the crash of a shot and Al dropped. Imogene fired two more shots. Then she demanded: "Now will you leave...
...last week the school janitor went down to the basement to rinse his mop, found windows smashed, wastepaper containers upset, paper scattered everywhere. Catching a flash of yellow disappearing up the stairway, he gave chase. Just as the boy was about to be trapped, he pulled a handful of stones out of his pocket, let fly a barrage. Dodging, the janitor slipped and fell on the wet floor. The boy disappeared...
Earnest tourists who flock by the thousand each year to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art often enter the vast lobby, gaze in awe at the sweep of marble stairway and ask: "Where is the art?" Only those who carry a map and compass can be sure of finding their way through the Metropolitan's 325,811 sq. ft. of sprawling galleries, which house the most diverse collection of art objects in the world today...
...evacuated them from shore. The first patient, a soldier, had been wounded in the back and arm by mortar fragments. Dr. Beck examined his tag and pried under his bandages. "Put him in Surgical One Lower," said the doctor. The bearers lifted him gingerly and walked up the stairway...