Word: doormen
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...promise you that it looks a lot different when you are crossing it on foot, along with thousands of other people. Along Fifty-Eighth Street, restaurant workers sat outside their eateries on chairs better suited for office work or dinner than for outdoor lounging. Firefighters sat outside their stations, doormen outside their buildings and parking garage attendants outside their booths. One driver rested his head on the steering wheel of his car, trapped in a garage by an electrically-operated pole blocking the exit...
...French citizenship his eight siblings obtained, something he must now regret. The 1994 shooting of his younger sister scarred Mesbah, affidavits from psychologists note, and contributed to his subsequent abuse of alcohol and reliance on petty crime. His conviction for attempted murder stems from a 1995 altercation with nightclub doormen; when he was refused entry, Mesbah fired shots at the bouncers, wounding one. Once behind bars, Mesbah was a model prisoner. Penitentiary guards considered his behavior so commendable that they soon began assigning him sensitive prison tasks. He received several job offers pending his release. Mesbah even risked...
Meanwhile, Big Fat Promotions, a stealth-marketing pioneer based in New York City, says (without naming its clients) that it has paid bar "leaners" to casually talk up the merits of certain liquors, doormen to pile up packages from a particular online catalog company in the lobby of their building, mothers to talk about a new laundry detergent at their kids' little-league games and commuters to play with a new PDA on the train home. Jonathan Ressler, 38, who founded Big Fat (one look at the loud, hulking New Jersey native, he says, and you will know where...
...million for 25,000 more volunteers. And Bush wants $10 million for teaching support programs, $50 million to expand Senior Corps (foster grandparents and companions) and $40 million over five years to double the Peace Corps (especially in Islamic countries). The Citizen Corps will tap the naturally nosy--doormen, truckers, postmen--to report anything that looks suspicious to a new terrorist hot line. Unfurling Freedom Corps allows the President to bring the war home, to dress the entire country in green fatigues to "fight evil with acts of goodness...
Instead of calling the ID checkers at the front door “bouncers,” Lee refers to his relatively undersized front line as “doormen...