Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that evening by person or persons unknown. Two Circulation Desk attendants, Lawrence Corbett and Alfrado Ochoa, followed their noses and found a shoebox containing one bomb outside the door of the south entrance to the Reading Room. Soon afterwards, an unidentified law student discovered the second in a phone booth at the south stairwell in the basement...
From a phone booth at the restaurant Miss Caldeira called Capt. John Granger, chief of the Cambridge detective bureau. Granger phoned the Boston police, who went quickly to the restaurant and made the arrest for Cambridge. Farrell was reported to be gentle and cooperative at the arrest. He bummed cigars off the officers and addressed each...
...have a match?" a voice in the next booth called out. As Biff turned and inspected the head which hung over the divider between the two booths he noted that the young man wore thick glasses. Bundie reached into his coat pocket, but stopped short as he felt his hand fall upon a small package. Slowly he drew it out and eyed it carefully. "It's not mine," he stated half-aloud. "In fact I've never seen it before...
After a generation of working for other people's publications, Stone decided he'd been "carrying on a soliloquy inside a telephone booth." He tired of researching news that city editors wouldn't print. He yearned for a job that wouldn't ask him to soften his view, to be a promoter or a salesman; a job in which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand...
...talked in the Yard of Ale, a woman in the next booth suddenly began to argue with her male companion in a shrill boozy voice that carried from one end of the restaurant to the other. The manager glided over and tried to herd them out the door. The man, ashen with embarrassment, insisted, "I don't know this woman, I've never seen her before in my life." "You're my husband and you know it," she whined. "We've got three children at home and the freezer's empty. How am I supposed to get home? I haven...