Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surge of applicants has made the embassy in London the busiest U.S. visa office in the world. Lines of 100 or more British and other, primarily Third World, nationals spill down the steps and onto the sidewalk outside the embassy building on Grosvenor Square. Inside, 60 employees process as many as 6,000 applications a day. At any moment, some 60,000 to 80,000 British passports are in the embassy's hands. Boxes and baskets overflow with applications. Harried staff give hurried glances before rubber-stamping approval. Applicants, once thronged inside, now wait mainly outside. Says Visa Unit...
...world was once the whole city, when New York was a Dutch town veined by canals and hemmed in by a wall (thus the name of the street). Koch shows no interest in such things, any more than he seems to notice the plaque located on the sidewalk in front of city hall: "In this place 24 March 1900, Hon. Robert Van Wyck made the first excavation for the underground railway"?the onset of one of the mayor's great headaches commemorated under his nose...
...battle-hardened toughness that only two days after the attacks, stores reopened, trade flourished and the bars and restaurants were once again jammed with pleasure-seekers. The flower shops that proliferate in almost every quarter of the city were filled with carnations and snapdragons that spilled over onto the sidewalk in elegant displays. At countless intersections, the fruit and vegetable stands that sell the best fresh food in the Middle East were doing a thriving business. All the city's 86 banks -more numerous than before the civil war-were open for business. The British embassy went ahead with...
...somber mood extended last week all the way to Cannes, where key industry figures from around the world gathered for the annual wheeling and movie dealing at the industry's premier film festival. High-rolling producers like Richard Zanuck still vied for choice tables at sidewalk cafés along the Boulevard de la Croisette, while aspiring starlets jousted for the attention of the camera-toting paparazzi. But Variety summed up the atmosphere in the headline: LACK OF ZEST AT CANNES FILM FEST...
After federal regulators locked the doors at the failed Economy Savings and Loan Association in Chicago last week, worried depositors immediately began gathering on the sidewalk outside. For one white-haired woman, the scene is just brought what back happened haunting in the memories. '30s," she "This fretted...