Word: guttering
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...Bason is a minor British institution. He addresses Rotary luncheons, mimes on BBC television and exchanges bibliophiliac chatter with his pal, "Willy" (Somerset) Maugham. Nonetheless, at 42, Fred still lives in shimmy Walworth, and though he also owns a bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look of sincerity...
...next by became known as "Oliphant's Folly." Under his direction, a single copper wire conductor was run around the base of the gutter of the main courtyard in Lowell House. Tests showed that Lowell obtained wonderful reception. So did Worcester...
Piraquas & Manure. Garbage cans line the curb, from many of them refuse spills over on to the sidewalk. A fire burns in a cluttered gutter. A honking car scatters a game of stick ball in the street. On the corner, a cart vendor sells piraguas (shaved ice flavored with colored sirup) for 3? a cup. An old woman scrambles on her hands & knees under a horse-drawn cart, scooping fresh manure into a cardboard...
...roar rose from Fenway Park. Murphy's hands, thin and bony, gripped his knees, then slid down along his calves until the fingers stood on the asphalt. There were few spectators left, and fewer moved toward him. For a moment, even the scraps of torn paper in the gutter were resting. Then Murphy's hands pushed him up; he started to run again. "He'll never make it," a man muttered. "Attaboy, Fred," shouted another...
...there anything salvageable in such wreckage? William Booth had told his followers: "We are moral scavengers netting the very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter into just such a meeting, figuring that he had tried everything else, and might as well...