Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riverside Ave."--popularly known as "Fender Alley"--will be grassed over as soon as the title to the land can be cleared up and the Leverett Courtyard extended to the sidewalk," he added. The purpose of closing Riverside Ave.--which is presently blocked off by a series of posts--is to have an attractive approach to the Leverett Dining Hall from Leverett Towers, he continued...
...dusty streets of the Jordanian capital of Amman, men, camels and motors jostled one another. On the sidewalk, scribes at low desks wrote out petitions for illiterate Bedouins bound for the Prime Minister's weekly audience for the public. Then, at midmorning, an explosion . rained debris on the terrified town...
...longer the formidable fence it used to be. Last week in Agra-where India's two most famous lovers, the Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan and his queen, lie buried under the Taj Mahal-the Indian Youth Association held a solemn seminar about a new kind of problem: the sidewalk dalliance that Indian youth calls "Eve-teasing...
After that, it was plain sailing. Mrs. A. took the kitten home, and as it grew, she got used to cats. She stopped walking on the edge of the sidewalk, stopped having cat nightmares, even had pleasant dreams of kittens. Then her dreams took a different turn: in them she violently counterattacked her domineering father. Somehow, report the therapists, this resolved some conflict in her unconscious. Mrs. A. stopped her frantic busying around the house and, for the first time since childhood, has stopped biting her nails. A year after beginning treatment, the therapists report in the British Medical Journal...
When A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford offered to build an $862,500 Parisian-style sidewalk cafe and pavilion in Manhattan's Central Park as a gift to the city, he might just as well have proposed a boiler factory for all the protesting cries it aroused. Moaning about this "unwarranted invasion," a curious assortment of allies, ranging from Funnyman Henry Morgan ("Anybody who chops down one tree ought to be executed") to the Fifth Avenue Association and Tiffany & Co., which brought a still pending court suit, apparently on the theory that soda sipping is bad for the diamond business...