Word: alleyways
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...debates and after one of the worst weeks in Ulster's history, an enduring political solution seemed as far away as ever. Following the murder of the ten Protestants, two bombs exploded in Belfast (no casualties were reported), a youth was murdered in an alleyway in a Protestant area, and a 15-minute firefight was waged between gunmen in County Monaghan in the Irish Republic and British soldiers across the border in County Tyrone...
...Liverpudlian argot ("My word, we do look a bobby dazzler"). The sisters' petty quarrels are small excursions of humanity in straitened circumstances. When Rita learns that her churlish soldier is illiterate, her dismayed brain is soon assuaged by her emotions. "Dear God, she thought, running up the cobbled alleyway, if he was that unschooled, he would need her, he would want to hold her in his life." Bainbridge unwisely changes her novel into a standard shocker on the final pages, but the ones that matter come earlier -shocks of recognition at the commonplace made extraordinary...
...used my money to buy a meal and spend the night in Berkeley's only hotel, an old worn-down warehouse located in the small industrial section. It wasn't much better than sleeping in an alleyway, but it provided some shelter. Most of the people in there were drifting, just like...
...PETER'S Episcopal Church stands diagonally across from the Cambridge City Hall. The building is square and redbricked, squeezed in between storefronts and a narrow alleyway of a street. It is an old church--founded in 1842, four years before Cambridge became a city...
...what police described as "one of the most ghastly murders yet," the unclothed body of Patrick Benstead, a 32-year-old Catholic from Belfast's East End, was found dumped in an alleyway. He had been tied up, beaten, shot and branded with the letters "I.R.A." Within hours, in what police assumed was an act of reprisal, a middle-aged Protestant in the same district was shot through the head. Appalled at the rising wave of murders, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, set up a special army and police task force to track...