Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devaluation of the pound was followed by the equally traumatic devaluation of Harold Wilson and his government. Crowds mounted a week-long vigil on the sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots...
...true." And what is America's contribution? "The deproletarianization of the working man. He ceases to be a proletarian. He thinks he's as good as everybody else." Hoffer knows he is. "You can almost close your eyes," he says, "reach over the sidewalk and make a man President, and he'll turn out to be Truman." That, in Hoffer's eyes, is "terrific, breathtaking...
Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...
...stood on the sidewalk in front of the Great Gate at Trinity College, Cambridge, and waited for an arrival who was already 14 minutes overdue, Trinity Master Lord Butler was somewhat bemused by his position. "It is the first time I have met a student here," he remarked to bystanders. Moments later, a red Mini pulled up and the gangly frame of Prince Charles unfolded from the tiny car. After much public debate in Britain over the proper education of the heir apparent, the Prince of Wales had come to Cambridge to finish his formal schooling. Though...
Although these reports were revealed as false, about 70 anti-war protestors walked to the hotel and began a demonstration of their own on the sidewalk outside the hotel entrance. At 5:30 a man who identified himself as a member of the American Nazi Party started heckling the demonstrators, shouting "You're killing my white brothers in Vietnam...