Word: side-street
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...Town News slack-jawed and drooling with no recollection of how you got there, screaming at people about blueberries and buttery flaky crust. Wait, that’s never happened to you? Fine, call me an addict. But I’ve found my perfect fix down a side-street on the way to Central Square. Petsi Pies has been up and running in Somerville since 2003, and opened on Valentine’s Day in what used to be an Italian grocery store called Cremaldi’s. The shop’s sign still says Cremaldi?...
Valerie Plame used to live hidden in plain sight. The brick house she and her husband, Joseph Wilson, bought in May of 1998 is on a leafy, Washington, D.C. side-street, a few turns from the German Embassy, and fits right in with the other well-to-do homes around it. The open garage door displays the common items of family life: bicycles, kids' toys, garbage cans. Wilson's convertible Jaguar sits parked in the driveway. A paved walkway cuts through a manicured lawn to the front door, behind which children can be heard playing. But the slim, attractive woman...
...initials and hearts in the sidewalks, so carefully drawn by long-grown children, are cracking where tree roots have heaved the cement upwards. The wide porches of side-street houses are strewn with Christmas decorations. On Inman Street, decaying doors frame gleaming new doorknobs...
Byhalia, Miss. isn't much of a town. Straddling U.S. 78 as it winds its way south from Memphis through the decayed northern Mississippi countryside, it is little more than a somnolent side-street with a few general goods stores, a town square, and a soaring water tower. The population of the town is 750 persons, and although 70 per cent of them are black, the mayor, the town leader and all the merchants are white...
...Phase 11 wage-price curbs have changed so much lately that the period now beginning might be called Phase 11½. The inflation-fighting program started six months ago as a sweeping attempt to put controls on companies of all sizes, down to side-street delicatessens and hand laundries, with only a small enforcement mechanism. Now the operation has been streamlined into something much closer to what most economists had recommended all along. The Nixon Administration will restrict controls to the major companies that set the pace for the economy, and back the controls by tougher policing and the threat...