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...Someone just dropped this," she said in a barely audible voice. Then looking away from me, and towards the back of the trolley, she tried to see who might have dropped the bills. There was a pause of fifteen or twenty seconds; it appeared as if the woman either didn't know what to do, or was beginning to entertain thoughts of hushing up and keeping the money. But she knew that I had seen her pick...
...tell the driver--he'll make an announcement," I suggested to the elderly woman. After all, I thought, with only fifteen or twenty people on the trolley, it shouldn't be too hard to locate the person, who probably just got on. The woman hesitated then moved forward in her seat towards the driver...
...them. They are nonetheless worth asking. It doesn't matter to history whether Alger Hiss actually passed those documents. What matters is that people believed that he could have; that, in fact, they were right--he could have; and the unanswered question is why. And why, at his trial fifteen years later, trying to explain or at least to understand what had happened to the world, Hiss could say only, "It was quite a different atmosphere in Washington then than today...
...Fifteen minutes later, when Charlie Hirschler allowed his opponent to move the ball toward the goal unchallenged, Brown tallied another point. Ben Bryant tried to stop the attack, but he was out-maneuvered. Brown scored again shortly afterwards when Amor Hollingsworth replaced Bryant. Amor came away from the net for a save and ended up on the ground. Terry Ferguson, the star defensive player of the day, tried to stop the shot but couldn...
...father of one boy I know works as a janitor in an office complex. He works for ten, sometimes for fifteen hours, every day. His work is in an unseen "second basement" underneath the "regular" sub-basement of the tallest skyscraper in Boston. He works so many deep and sunless meters underneath the level of the lobby floor, that he is even underneath the level of the turnpike that runs underneath the building. I talk with him often in the evening hours after he returns from work: coated with dirt and broken with exhaustion. This man, 56 years...