Word: pillared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being Saturday night and the Square is greasy from too much desire. Teen-agers in turquoise and cranberry, all chewing with the mouth open. Pass behind the Coop pillar and wait...
...virile sounds: sports cars roaring like motorcycles, motorcycles roaring like sports cars, boys and girls laughing with their teeth together. You would laugh too if you didn't avoid the Square Saturday night and creep up Mt. Auburn Street or sneak by on Brattle Street. Come, come behind the pillar and watch the three girls, now in a red Sprite. Too bad girls, the light is green and you have to ride straight through. These things, you know, are a matter of timing...
Nathan's succeeds. The nearest subway entrance is miles through the dark, there are no buses to chariot you home if the stares don't turn aside, no pillar to lean against. Try leaning anywhere and the private cops scoot you along. Lounging is bad for business--and constant circulation means inevitable collision...
...murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year...
When Sharon's twin sister Valerie was murdered in the Percy mansion at Kenilworth outside of Chicago in September, young Rockefeller immediately chartered a plane and flew to Sharon's side. He was, said a friend of the family, a "pillar of strength" to Sharon, who had been sleeping in a bedroom just yards away from where her sister was slain...