Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...section called Crown Heights -there happen to be a few acres of ground called Ebbets Field. Undoubtedly, certain sport-minded residents are interested in what goes on there. But there is a widespread impression that not only Flatbush but all of Brooklyn is merely an extension of that ball park. TIME is one of the worst offenders in disseminating that humiliating propaganda...
Collector's Items. In Paris, police needed six trucks to haul away the odds & ends (including some granite statues, a park bench, 139 wigs, two dozen ice skates for the left foot) amassed over 15 years by Kleptomaniac Robert Bury...
...Look at the dirt in that gutter. And the spots in that park ... no grass at all. And the bumps in this street. This town is falling apart, piece by piece...
Babushka, We Go! Next morning, the story was on Manhattan front pages. (Not the tabloids, of course: there was no sex angle.) Waves of friends and reporters eddied through the Rodzinskis' Park Avenue apartment. They found the household as gaily confused as a Polish wedding party: the telephone and doorbell jingled merrily, Artur poured wine, vivacious Halina sliced Polish pastries...
...Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. Roosevelts, all distant cousins to one another, had for a common ancestor Claes Martenszen van Roosevelt, a Dutch trader who came to New Amsterdam around...