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Word: pushcart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First Cup, a pushcart loaded with pastries and coffee pots, is the latest addition to the Coop's thirdfloor billing area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

Gray claims police arrested him because he was taking pictures as they closed down an unlicensed pretzel vendor's pushcart, Golon said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review Board Takes on New Cases | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

Reza reads a lot, especially stories about the weak using stratagems to beat the strong. An example is The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill, the tale of a battle between pushcart vendors and truck drivers that the pushcart vendors win despite apparently hopeless odds, a triumph of brain over brawn. The movie The Elephant Man brought tears to his eyes. "It reminded me of my problem. I am small, but not bad or strange." He likes Tom and Jerry cartoons. "I feel like Jerry. Tom picks on him the same way people pick on me." In a world full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: A Boy Towers Tall | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...government is selling so-called dignity bags of rice, beans and other staples at a discount from regular prices. The crisis has brought relatively little new hardship for the poor, so far. Hereberto Lombaro, 33, says he makes about $20 a day selling fruit-flavored ices from a pushcart. "I don't care what the Americans do," he says, grinning up at the cloudless sky. "As long as it stays hot, I'll have customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short On Cash, Long on Coping | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...child, Kaczynski recalls, the only noise she heard from her house besides playing children was the shrill sound of salesmen peddling meat, fish, and vegetables from pushcart...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Development Threatens Bank St. Neighborhood | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

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