Word: pedestrian
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...less draconian solution would be to designate narrow sidewalks in the city as umbrella-free zones, thereby limiting hand-held canopy use to broader walkways where they pose less of a threat. Zoning would have to be accompanied by strict pedestrian right of way laws to protect the rights of potential umbrella victims. Obviously, such laws would place an added burden on law enforcement authorities, but this cost would be more than justified by the benefit to the public safety...
...center of the park will be marked by a large granite fountain. A pedestrian corridor will connect the three-lined area with Harvard Square via the K--School and the Charles Hotel...
...corner, several blocks of a street seemed untouched. Nonetheless, a young man looked worriedly above him: a 20-story building was leaning forward at an alarming angle. Farther down the street, another building was tilted backward, while a third had a V-shaped bulge in its middle. No pedestrian could feel safe below the damaged structures, yet three shabbily dressed women sat nearby, sipping coffee out of plastic cups. They said they were afraid to go back into their homes since the walls might tumble around them...
...effort features a more pedestrian detective along with her stock characters, a deadly earnest tone and a climactic burst of violence befitting its story of long-calculated revenge. Although the setting remains British, Help the Poor Struggler is rather an American novel, with brooding and cynical overtones of Raymond Chandler ("It wasn't the pale skin of a man who'd not seen enough of the sun. It was more as if one had put a paintbrush to an emotion -- despair, desolation, whatever -- and tinged it in that sickly whitishgray"). Depth of characterization is not Grimes' strong suit...
...maybe Harvard is just trying to keep buses heaping with sweaty tourists from Hoboken, N.J., from infiltrating the pristine Yard. But then why do they leave the Cadillac-sized vehicle gates open while locking the pedestrian gates...