Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foremost black leaders, drove back to the Marriott Inn where he was staying in Fort Wayne, Ind. As he stepped from the fire-engine red Pontiac Grand Prix, a burst of rifle shots shattered the muggy night. Jordan slumped against the trunk of the car, then collapsed on the pavement, his head resting near the left taillight. He was alive, but he had been grievously wounded by two bullets from a .30-06 rifle...
...activity, from making speeches to occupying nuclear power plants to skywriting messages. At Seabrook, next week, it may mean joining the blockade effort, an attempt to block traffic on and off the site. The handbook suggestions for tactics sound vaguely menacing here too, however--hints for success ripping up pavement, driving spikes into the road, and parking old cars in the street to block traffic. "We should make every effort to be creative and effective, while minimizing the use of our bodies." Blocking roads with bodies would be more effective in gathering sympathy and showing commitment. Trucks will get through...
Alewife, in the northwestern end of Cambridge, is, in sports, and industrial ghetto, 350-odd acres of cracking pavement, dead end streets and decaying factories. On the other side of the city, where Simplex Wire and Cable once dominated the Cambridgeport neighborhood, trash collects in vacant lots where giant pools of steel were stored. Crumbling, vacant brick warehouses stand silent; barbed wire fences guard nothing...
...HOLLOW ROOM vibrated with the sounds of the streets of Tehran. His mind walked the streets of Cambridge, footsteps echoing. Perini's boys were digging up the Square, rat tat tat. He heard the brutality inflicted on the helpless pavement, and yelled for them to stop. They wouldn't, so he shivered and screamed at the cranes, "Louder, louder!" The noise persisted. He rolled over to swing apple juice...
...Near by a man had the back of his head and his hands blown off when a bomb he was holding exploded. The air was filled with smoke from the explosives. Hundreds of people hugged any protective cover they could find or lay flat on the pavement. As I was carried along with the crowd pressing into the side door of the cathedral, I saw young militants rolling over on their bodies to make their way across the street, some with small-caliber guns in their hands. The bedlam was horrifying...