Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remainder of the tour covered everything from a fancy Hungarian restaurant to a pizza parlor, where we were joined by others. It culminated outside a donut shop where Joseph tossed out donuts onto the pavement in case I was hungry, dryly calling out the flavors: "Coconut...cinnamon...jelly..." Over the next few weeks I often went along on Joseph's lonely hunts. I never ate anything, but Joseph appreciated the company...
...officials maintain an image. New York City's Mayor Ed Koch flaunts a style: confident, snappish, moralistic and salty as a delicatessen waiter's banter. For better or worse, he has come to symbolize the world's one-dimensional view of a New Yorker: an abrasive pavement-pounder who is allergic to trees. Koch obliged this perception after taking over Gracie Mansion in 1977; he kept his small apartment in Greenwich Village as a weekend retreat. He was not being cute; those who have followed the mayor's career should now realize that his biggest indulgence...
...anyone immediately behind the trio. As Aquino began to crumple, some one, I believe it was Mr. Galman, was warded off from the front of the group [as it headed toward the van] by the soldier wearing sun glasses, the left escort. Mr. Aquino had fallen forward to the pavement. Mr. Galman was standing at the rear corner of the van nearest me, his arms fully raised and holding a gun with two hands. It appeared someone was holding his wrists. The left escort fired at Galman from a squatting position near the body [of Aquino]. Galman's arms...
...year-old scholar fell on the pavement outside the church on his way to morning services...
Meanwhile ten times ten thousand men, women & children had gathered before the inaugural platform on the East Front of the Capitol. They blackened 40 acres of park and pavement. They sat on benches. They filled bare trees. They perched on roof tops. But for all the flags and music and ceremony, they were not a happy, carefree crowd. Their bank accounts were frozen by what amounted to a national moratorium. Many of them wondered how they could raise the cash to get home. Their mass spirits were as sombre as the grey sky above. Yet they remained doggedly hopeful that...