Word: pavements
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...Times, University of Illinois Graduate Chancellor, now 33, joined NBC news in 1950, went around Chicago in a mobile unit painted like a police car and equipped with a flashing red light and siren. He chased cop calls, once sprawled on the pavement and narrated a gunfight with bullets whanging overhead, also covered an oil refinery fire, continuing his broadcast even while running through falling debris, although his voice went up about seven octaves en route...
...Wants to Sleep (Film Polski; Edward Harrison) begins in a dark alley; a man is clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
...badly wounded. As soon as I stopped the car. the generalissimo jumped out, firing his revolver. Blood was spurting from his back. Seven men with machine guns and pistols piled out of the other car. There was a burst of gunfire, and the generalissimo fell face down on the pavement...
...under the Nazi regime continued. A father told how he had been forced to throw the bodies of his son and daughter on the crematory fires. An Israeli electrical worker described an SS man courteously asking a mother to hand over her baby, then dashing its head against the pavement. Other witnesses testified that the Nazi soldiers delighted in testing their revolver marksmanship by aiming at the tips of a Jew's fingers and nose, and forced husbands to have sex relations with other men's wives in view of their children...
...forced to conclude that if a known artist spits on the pavement, the design made by the saliva is significant indeed...