Word: guttered
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...They wheeled it through the streets, then joyously rolled it up and down the steps of the National Assembly over and over again. Up the street, another group heaved rocks into the bookstore owned by one of Diem's brothers, tossed the books and religious objects into the gutter and put the torch to the pile of rubble. The people danced, chanted and shouted around the bonfire, which burned for hours...
...raised with subtlety and without polemics in That Championship Season, a drama of searing intensity, agonized compassion and consummate craftsmanship. The play centers on the 20th reunion of a handful of men whose lives were once fresh as mountain springs and now resemble the sooty detritus of a city gutter. A silver trophy stands as a cenotaph for their one moment of glory, when they won a high school basketball title...
...half brother Sydney had gone the rounds of London's forbidding schools for the destitute. Chaplin's great creation is a waif in the tradition of Pip and Oliver and David Copperfield. Like Dickens, Chaplin never forgot the wink of the pavement and the leer of the gutter. Also like Dickens, he was enchanted with radical politics -at a proper distance. In fact, despite his sponsorship of Soviet-American friendship meetings and loud avowal of Stalinist causes, Chaplin was the kind of political naif who would only fellow-travel in first class...
...bring earnings up. They want to see more solid evidence of the business comeback before relaxing their grip on the corporate budget. E.F. Andrews, a vice president of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Ludlum Industries, sums up the mood with considerable hyperbole: "When you have been lying in the gutter and finally reach the curb, you feel better, but not that much better...
...clear that the Prime Minister has not a shred of authority for pursuing his European policy," and predicted "months of bitter debate" over Common Market membership. One Laborite actually tried to drag Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe to the Tory side of the aisle, and another cried, "They are a gutter party, the Liberals, the humbugs...