Word: boulevards
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...diamond twice as large in a ring he wore. I said, "Sir Henri, this must be a God-awful experience for you, stranded in the Winkler County desert." His reply: "Compared with traveling in Mesopotamia on a camel with mud up to its arse, this is a boulevard...
...wide, tree-lined boulevard leading to the Diet, some 6,000 fanatical students of the Zengakuren federation (who are so militant they consider Communists "sissified") surged against a barricade of police trucks drawn up before the Diet. In a wild melee of flying fists and thumping night sticks the police drove them back time and again. As darkness fell, the rioters were beaten at a cost of 18 seriously injured and 100 with minor bumps and bruises...
Close after the 15th anniversary of the fateful Yalta Conference, U.S.S.R. bureaucrats changed the name of Yalta's main thoroughfare from the just plain Russian word Bulvarnaya (i.e., Boulevard Street) to Roosevelt Boulevard...
...each weekday morning and often earlier on Sundays, the red-and-cream Nash convertible cuts out from a modest house in Hollywood Hills and hums along Santa Monica Boulevard. The wiry, 52-year-old cleric behind the wheel of what he calls an "old man's sports car" is a Methodist bishop. He is so much of a bishop, in fact-and so far from being an old man-that this month he takes over the top job in his ten-million-member denomination. Gerald Hamilton Kennedy's new post: president of the Methodist Council of Bishops...
Ducking into doorways and houses, the home guardsmen fought back and within moments other armed French Algerian civilians, pulling out hidden weapons, came to their aid. Caught in a crossfire, the gendarmes dropped into the boulevard's wide middle gardens and unlimbered their automatic weapons. For 20 minutes, while the street lights blinked off and on, the crackle of rifle fire alternated with the rasping bursts of heavy machine guns...