Word: alleyways
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...proceeded to grab money form locations in the tellers' area. He departed and turned left into an alleyway, police said...
...shops are slated for an official grand opening at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, but many stores in the remodeled alleyway have been welcoming eager customers for almost a week...
There's also an alleyway teeming with self-proclaimed artists who peddle their creations, mostly pictures of the hotel, for $5 to $10 apiece. From a distance, the paintings are elaborate, detailed depictions of the Chateau Frontenac. Up close, they are xereoxed pieces of paper marked with black-and-white ink sketches of the hotel. Like pages from coloring books, their spaces are filled with watercolor paint. The "artists" must not use small-enough brushes--the don't always stay in the lines...
...chance of showing up on time. Above all, as English has become a kind of prized commodity -- and a status symbol -- in many corners of the world, those of us born in possession of it are apt to feel as vulnerable as a bejeweled dowager in a dark back alleyway. There's always someone waiting to jump out and mug us with his English -- before we can try out our Bahasa Indonesia...
...sound the alarm. "Soldiers!" cries a 13-year-old girl, peeking out the window of the dank second-story apartment. As she hides a framed picture of a "martyred" relative, wrapped in the outlawed Palestinian flag, three young men dash out the back door and flee down the narrow alleyway. When the Israeli soldiers hurl a stone through the open window, two middle-aged women cower on the bed, rocking back and forth in terror. "God help us," pleads Umm Hamada, 45, desperately rubbing her hands together...