Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painter set down his toolbox on the sidewalk near City Hall long enough to say he is "dubious" about national health insurance...
They were all here. And many others, from surrounding suburbs and beyond. The Pope was expected at 3:30 p.m., but the people came as early as 10 a.m. to find a place by the sidewalk, huddled close to the yellow nylon cord strung between bright baby-blue barrels marking the route of the motorcade. It was a damp morning. The weary buildings belonged to the gray sky. But the street was proud with flags. Children held their own yellow-and-white papal banners-made the night before out of a glossy-stock insert from the Sunday Boston Globe...
...nobody gets too tense. The bridge game among the St. Elizabeth's parish ladies continues on the sidewalk. A red-and-white taxicab pulls up and, out of the back seat pops an entrepreneur. "$1.75 for sandwich and coffee," he shouts. "Profiteer," someone jeers. "Don't you feel guilty making money off the Pope's visit?" another asks, but obviously the answer is no because the sandwich man is enjoying himself no end. "I hope you get leprosy," Elkhorn's friend yells...
...paid much attention to Moon's smiling supporters when they were grossing more than $10 million a year peddling candy, flowers and ginseng tea on the sidewalk. But now that the Korean evangelist has sent his faithful into legitimate big business, both ordinary and powerful people are becoming concerned--not only with the validity of the Unification Church as a theological institution and its aims at world theocracy, but also with the legitimacy of its business practices. Indeed, the whole issue raises significant questions about the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion...
...watch at Blair House, where President Harry Truman was staying while the Executive Mansion was being remodeled. Birdzell turned to face a German P-38 automatic pistol held by Oscar Collazo, a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Both men began shooting. Birdzell was hit in both legs. Collazo sprawled on the sidewalk, wounded. Almost simultaneously another Nationalist, Griselio Torresola, attacked a nearby guard post with a Luger, killing a White House guard, Leslie Coffelt, and injuring Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs. Before he died, Coffelt killed Torresola. From an upstairs window, Truman, awakened from a nap, peered out in his underwear...