Word: third-floor
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...command center for that role is Charles' desk in his suite at Buckingham Palace. There are suites for the Prince at Windsor, Balmoral, Sandringham and other castle-homes, and the new digs at Chevening House in Kent, still under renovation. Charles has both his lodgings and office in his third-floor palace apartment overlooking St. James's Park. A few years back, Designer David Hicks redecorated the suite, but Charles has added his own touches and a good bit of clutter. The bathroom is hung with favorite cartoons, the sitting room crammed with memorabilia from his journeys. There are books...
Some might think that what makes living in the White House the good life is the Jacuzzi or the private movie theater. But what she really enjoys, Rosalynn insists, is the close family things. Relatives in the third-floor guest rooms. Holding hands around the dinner table as the President calls on someone to ask the blessing. Leisurely Saturday lunches at poolside with all the children. "You are kind of isolated from other people here," Rosalynn explains. "It draws the family closer. You're all in this situation together...
...hallway by the third-floor landing he came across Chris from down the hall, who had also just reached his saturation point in studying. After their evening's bout with formal learning both Jon and Chris just wanted to free associate. They stood by the stairwell talking about whatever popped into their minds. Jon started to tell about the math he had learned that night, but quickly got off the subject for fear that it was becoming an obsession...
Sheldon Lee Glashow is a charming man. Five days a week the tall, pot-bellied, cigar-puffing physics professor shuffles into his third-floor office, plunks himself down behind his desk, strikes a match to a gigantic role of cured tobacco leaves and plies his trade--pondering the fundamental constituents of matter. And the profundity of Glashow's thoughts have made him a founding father of the theory of "charmed particles...
...assassins came late in the evening, two men in their 20s wearing green topcoats. In third-floor offices at Calle Atocha 55 in downtown Madrid, eight young lawyers employed by the Communist-dominated labor-federation comisiones obreras (workers' commissions) were still in their offices when the pair burst through the door. Brandishing automatic weapons apparently equipped with silencers, they herded a male receptionist and the lawyers, one of them a woman, into a semicircle and ordered them to hold their hands in the air. One of the team of killers ripped out telephone lines, while the other demanded...