Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vagabond slipped on the icy sidewalk and nearly sprawled...
From there on out we flashed bulletins, before, after, and in the middle of programs. The news was hot so we plastered the bulletins on the window in front of our building and hooked up a radio above the sidewalk outside. Small crowds gathered up close and read them with wondering eyes all afternoon...
...that meant what it said, he not only reported the news but conveyed an actuality. U.S. listeners actually heard the people going by the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields on their way to shelters before a raid because Murrow laid his mike down on the sidewalk to pick up their unhurried footsteps. U.S. listeners sensed the strange silence between two raids on moonlit London because Murrow told them how loudly the liquid from two pierced cans of peaches dripped inside a smashed shop...
...shiny, grass-green news trucks started careening out of the loading tunnel of the Daily News Building, roared into Chicago's Loop, swerved with loud honking to crash halts at crowded newsstands. "Yo!" yelled the drivers, "the Sun is out!" Fat bundles of papers pitched to the sidewalk, melted like snow on a griddle a few minutes after they were ripped open. Sometimes the newsstand crowd cheered. Chicago was grabbing Vol. 1, No. 1 of Marshall Field's new 2? morning paper, the Tribune-challenging Chicago...
Suddenly a submachine gun chattered. Leslie Ernest Ludford, a crippled lawyer who had paused to buy an Armistice Day poppy, crumpled to the sidewalk moaning. A dark sedan roared away. Later the sedan halted outside the home of two elderly women, Mrs. Annie New and Mrs. Emily Crisp. The doorbell rang...