Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liked the Hami melons in Xinjiang, Li Gan made a special trip to the fruit stand. When we bicycled around the city, making a pilgrimage to my father's old high school or combing tape stores for recordings, Li Gan insisted on carrying the bicycle onto the sidewalk and locking it for me. We also stopped by the trendiest fast-food stand in the city, where after waiting in a very long line, my cousins treated my American taste buds to "kente"--a transliteration of Kentucky--fried chicken. They asked me how the whole chicken (neck and head included), deep...
George Gershwin's early years were the heyday of ragtime and the blues, of barroom and bordello "perfessers" in spats and hats, of Tin Pan Alley song pluggers and sidewalk player pianos, whose invisible hands held passersby enthralled with their fascinatin' rhythms. So young George was only doing what came naturally when, at age 18, he sat down to cut a piano roll of his first published song, a frisky ditty called When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want...
...often no amount of knowledge will help. We have all seen those who, hemmed in at the corner of a sidewalk, have reached that perilous moment of realization: The snow is too soft to serve as a causeway, the puddle is too wide for evasion, too long for jumping and too deep for tip-toeing. It is here that Cantabrigians can be seen drawing on their knowledge of Kierkegaard, and taking a heedless leap of faith (faith in what, you ask? Not God, but in the cans of silicone they applied to their Timberlands, of course...
...Spare Change newspaper, written and sold by members of Cambridge's homeless community, said they are working with Harvard Square area businesses and with Store 24 to develop a new system of giving. Customers would purchase books of coupons worth 25 cents each, which they could then give to sidewalk solicitors...
...city of Cambridge really doesn't clear thesnow," she said. "There's a big mountain of snowby the sidewalk, so it's impossible to park...