Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist J. B. Priestley (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), a man who loves both the Labor Party and his pint of ale, is not exactly opposed to the first idea, but he is vehemently in favor of the second. In his sprightly new novel, Festival, he makes the point with the high glee of a sturdy toper laying about him in a temperance meeting...
...Suddenly my car started to jump like a deer," said Taximan Lefebvre. "I saw a wave of snowy pavement roll toward me." The car appeared to strike the side of the bridge and then fell into space...
...stoop-shouldered, cosmopolitan Muscovite, who left Russia in 1920, easily explained how & why he had produced the drawings. "As a youth, taking Leonardo for my model," he began, "I went dutifully to the anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then...
...Rolleiflex camera hanging around his neck. Most of the other photographers had stowed their equipment in the trunk compartment. When what sounded like "firecrackers" proved to be gunfire, Zimmerman hit the street, arriving at Blair House in time to make a shot of one policeman falling to the pavement on Pennsylvania Avenue. He was the first photographer to get his camera into action. Not far behind him were Reporters Win Booth and Ed Darby, of TIME'S Washington bureau. Darby, who was returning from lunch with White House Secretary William D. Hassett, saw people running toward Blair House, leaped...
...tracks of Pennsylvania Avenue, turned and began firing back. A bullet hit one of his legs and he sank to one knee. Another bullet hit his good leg. He tumbled forward, and went on banging steadily away with his pistol held braced at arm's length on the pavement before...