Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Louis says she walked into her mother's house one day in 1959 to find Connerly, then a freshman at American River Junior College, "sitting down in the kitchen cutting a piece of paste-board and putting it into his shoe. I said, 'What on earth--?' He said, 'The pavement's so hot.' He was covering these big round holes in the soles of his shoes so he could walk to college." His detractors, she says, "are just lyin' on him. It's jealousy and it's hatred...
...went to New York and started like everyone else, beating the pavement, trying to see agents and seeing if I could get an agent or get something," Lemmon told a crowded Eliot House library in April...
After "beating the pavement" for many years in New York, Lemmon proceeded to flourish as an actor, his work prolifically spanning radio, stage, film, and television...
PARIS: Talk about pounding the pavement. Angling for votes to add to his National Front party's surprising 15 percent returns in last Sunday's first round of elections, fiery right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen found himself instead in a slugfest with some 30 hecklers in the crime-plagued Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie. In the tumult, Le Pen wound up striking one youth who had shoved him and lunging after others in the jeering, egg-hurling crowd. One man who may wish he had been there, sticks and stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With...
When a large nine-year-old boy aptly named "Brock" permanently scarred my forehead by compressing it into the pavement with his backside in front of my elementary school, I went home and watched a Yankee game. Don Mattingly would never sit on anyone's head...