Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooftops and balconies terrorists tossed three bombs one morning into the long, narrow Nicosia street that British troops call "murder mile." One soldier was killed, twelve were wounded. When the British closed down 37 shops and evicted 17 families along the street, a crowd of schoolgirls suddenly filled the pavement, shouting "Death to Harding." The girls paraded down the street, defying military police who were patrolling against just such an outbreak...
...intervals along 1.9 miles of Ponce de Leon Avenue are rubber inserts in the pavement that respond to each vehicle passing over them. They report to a 2-by-3-ft. aluminum box packed with electronic equipment. The box is essentially an analogue computer whose electronic intelligence forms a detailed picture of traffic on the avenue. When the Atlanta Crackers' ball game ends, the computer knows it immediately from traffic flow, and tells secondary control boxes at the traffic lights to clear the way for homebound fans. The master control box allows for the side streets too, and does...
...days and nights by activists among their own employees. Literally hundreds of thousands committed suicide. At one time in Shanghai, the Bund on the Whangpoo River was roped off, the roofs of tall buildings were guarded to prevent suicides, and residents developed the habit of avoiding walking on the pavement near skyscrapers for fear that suicides might land on them from the rooftops...
...numbers, Hong Kong's 2,400,000 Chinese, speaking every dialect of the mainland, dominate the colony, but a few thousand English-speaking whites run it. The mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
Next door to Morocco, Algerian troublemakers, not to be outdone, persisted in shooting up the place. In Algiers an assassin fired three shots from his bicycle, disappeared leaving a police commissioner dead on the pavement. In Constantine, a rebel stamping ground in eastern Algeria, French troops battled guerrilla bandits, captured 77. Later, a French troop detachment and then an army supply truck were ambushed. The week's dead...