Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weiss Nicht." An angular, middle-aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough...
Sailors' scuffles are a familiar story in many a port, and in Latin America they have often helped feed anti-U.S. feeling. The Pérez story was another case of a friendly visit marred by hoodlums in uniform. Said a Monte sidewalk philosopher: "It's a pity these sailors should have picked on Uruguay, the only country in South America that really likes...
Several groups of students, predominently from the final clubs, passed through the line and into the nightclub, throwing jeers and taunts at the pickets moving slowly at five foot intervals along the sidewalk. There were on fiare-ups and no violence throughout the night...
...conform to the regulations, Bowser then requested membership. Jarvis took the group into his office, had them all leave their names, and said that "application forms" would be sent to them through the mails. Cater and Jordan left for their half-empty drinks, and Bowser and Pierce for the sidewalk...
TIME Correspondent Fred Klein literally felt the veterans' mood: "A crowd of veterans milled around my taxi, swung it around and deposited the front wheels on the sidewalk. Their leader pulled me out and seated me gently on the pavement...