Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watcher knows neither his identity nor his motive. The body is found and the news buzzes through to Homicide. During the balance of the show, the audience follows a veteran detective (Barry Fitzgerald), his young helper (Don Taylor) and a swarm of assistants, from laboratory experts to pavement pounders, at the long hard job of smelling out suspects and closing in on the criminal. It is a remarkably thorough, fresh and engrossing exposition of big-city criminological methods...
Milton, a "veteran roof man" fell some 55 feet to the pavement...
...saleslady cited yesterday a municipal regulation more vigorously enforced than the standing five-wampum-belt fine for kissing the wife on the Sabbath. The law makes it a misdemeanor to negotiate pavement sales without a license...
...M.P.s there would be 50 "pavement tickets" distributed by ballot, permitting a few lucky members to stand outside New Palace Yard, but John Donnelly, a sergeant major of the Royal Artillery, was assured of a seat in the Abbey to represent his regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, of which Elizabeth is colonel-in-chief...
Outside the offices of Rio's Communist Tribune-Popular, the pavement was white with paper, littered with broken desks, smashed typewriters. Just three and a half hours after the Brazilian Foreign Office announced the diplomatic break with Russia, a slug-happy gang of rowdies had broken into the Tribunals plant. They whanged sledge hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops...