Word: pavement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess' car left the gates, a man standing on the sidewalk raised a sawed-off shotgun, fired wildly. Thinking the noise to be a motor backfiring, the Duchess drove on. Policemen, summoned by a motorist, found the man sitting on the pavement beside his shotgun and a racing bicycle on which he had arrived. As all London buzzed with the attack on the popular, pretty Duchess, wife of the youngest brother of Britain's King George VI, Scotland Yard announced that its prisoner had just arrived in London from Australia, where the Duke of Kent...
Pushing the three in front of him, he stepped into the street. No one was on the sidewalks but bullets began whanging at him from all around, shattering the bank's front windows, splintering the woodwork. Durand began shooting at random. Gawthrop slumped to the pavement, mortally...
...Each D. U. causes the car to require a longer turning radius ... for dry concrete pavement 80 feet longer for each D. U. carried. Thus you can make only one-fourth as sharp a turn at 50 as at 25; one-ninth as sharp...
...proposal his royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans were waiting for him. As he stepped out of his taxi, 200 of them pummeled him to the pavement, shouted "Resign! Resign...
...moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added that she was "ready for feathering" when...