Word: sidestreets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France's Unknown Soldier. It was two days after the fall of Dienbienphu, and the worried police made the biggest show of strength since the anti-Ridgway riots in 1952. More than 10,000 steel-helmeted police and armed guards assembled, truckloads of mobile guards blocked every sidestreet, and police aircraft hovered overhead. A full hour before De Gaulle's appearance, a crowd of 15,000 gathered behind the police barriers. When De Gaulle's open black car arrived, a band struck up the Marseillaise. On his uniform the tall, greying man wore only one decoration...
...faintly lit West Berlin sidestreet, a man sat behind the wheel of a dark sedan, waiting. A pretty girl carrying two bottles of Coca Cola crossed the sidewalk, glanced back at the sedan before letting herself into the house at 11 Heilbronner Strasse. The heavy, wrought-iron door clashed behind her, and she started up the narrow stairs. Above her there was a sudden sound of thudding feet and labored breathing. At the top of the stairs, a man appeared carrying the limp body of an elderly, bald-headed man. Behind him was a man she knew well-43-year...
...move, members of a Communist organization called the "Freedom Fighters" were ripping about in an ear-splitting motorcycle race. Communist youth battalions marched through the square, singing Communist songs. The crowd prayed and waited. Finally, the faithful were allowed by the police to hold their procession in a sidestreet. Their hymns were all but drowned by the motorcycles...