Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surge forth, trombones, saxophones, a beseeching clarinet, trumpets, tubas. The sound of Just a Closer Walk with Thee throbs across the leafy neighborhood of rundown houses, gas stations, union hall, stores and churches. It is late in the year, but the weather is soft. Just above, on the elevated expressway, traffic whips by, but on the ground the slow beat of the music warps the day's rhythm into a doleful sway...
...unique situation last March. Michael, a student at Boston English High School, was at the Columbia MBTA station when he noticed three white youths attacking a Black man. He approached them and told them to stop. The white youths turned on Doherty and chased him onto the Southeast Expressway, where a car struck and killed him. When it happened, the significance of his action was nearly unrecognized by public officials, the local media, and the Covenant committee...
...easy concept to grasp, particularly for Islander fans. One hot and sweaty day this summer a long-time die-hard rooter from Section 308 was inching down the Long Island Expressway when his thoughts turned to hockey...
...almost a guarantee--somewhere in Boston someone will snap. "City desk to Eddie Moran," the radio squawks around 2:30. "We have a sniper in the Old Westwood Apartments, Norwood--the place is crawling with cops." And he's off, travelling fast down the deserted Southeast Expressway towards Norwood. A few wrong turns, but still there in twenty minutes--just in time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help you. But two officers who had just been shot...
...visit the Jasna Gora monastery in Poland to see the revered painting of the Black Madonna. But dozens of visitors are injured while crossing the busy road that separates the grounds from the town of Czestochowa. In addition, the government has long wanted to widen the road into an expressway. The solution: a pedestrian tunnel. But the project became another test of wills between Polish church and state. Bishop Stefan Barela complained that the underpass was a plot to cut off the monastery from the town and to "strike a blow at the cult of the Madonna." The tunnel...