Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan weather was oppressive and steamy, and the night heat shrouded the slum tenements like a great wool blanket. In an unlit concrete playground in the peaceful but teeming Clinton district slum in Hell's Kitchen on the West Side, seven boys and two girls lazed quietly on concrete benches. It was past midnight...
Delighted with their growing audiences, the nozem recently began to extend their activities into one of Amsterdam's chief tourist attractions-the legalized red-light district, occupying a network of ijth century streets around Dam Square. While police fumed impotently. the nozem ranged up and down, heckling tourists on the prowl, making fun of the prostitutes, sometimes even smashing the big bay windows in which the girls display themselves. To avoid trouble, tourists began to stay away from the district; prostitution and pimping revenues fell accordingly...
...nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem...
...trip he made last week was the kind Duplessis took often, and carried off well, at once political fence mending and approving official inspection of Quebec's industrial progress, which he had earnestly nourished. Boarding a Dakota, he flew north over the bleak vastness of the northern Ungava district to Schefferville (pop. 1,630, an iron-mine company town). Relaxed and joking, the premier and friends toured the great, red-dust-laden, open-pit ore mine. During a break. Duplessis and a companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled...
...September; so will makers of appliances, farm machinery, ships. Steelmakers have told Cincinnati toolmakers that even if peace comes soon they cannot expect deliveries for three or four months-so long is the waiting list of top-priority defense contractors. Yet steel users stood solidly behind the industry. Said District Manager L. M. Spicer of Los Angeles' Ceco Steel Products Corp.: "This country is going to be out of the steel business if something isn't done to stop spiraling prices. I'm glad the steel industry has finally decided to stand by its guns...