Word: sidewalkers
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...group lived on the third floor along with Russian roommates majoring in Philology. They were fairly interested in us--some more than others. Fear of Soviet spying caused us to discuss private matters at a whisper in the hall or on the sidewalk, to make telephone calls from payphones a distance from the dorm, and never to leave the addresses of our local Russian friends in the usual places for such things. Although most became good friends with their roomies, we were careful not to say more than was necessary; every inhabitant of "6" was special. Just to enter this...
Whether delirious from recent triumph or reticent from a disappointing defeat, caught and paralyzed in rush hour sidewalk traffic or in the midst of a mad dash to make the show on time. Coach Kleinfelder's band of wandering minstrels failed to make the all-important call...
Says she: "I intend to improve the physical and social environment on Waikiki and take action against the prostitutes and sidewalk vendors selling junk. Tourism will always be No. 1 here. We just don't have any choice about that...
Cambridge's sidewalk chimes--silenced last spring after complaints from neighbors--may be resurrected in the next few weeks to provide Christmas cheer for residents...
...generally see the black ghetto areas like Anacostia, where trimmed lawns and trees as stately as dowagers mix strangely with dour housing projects and graffiti-ridden seesaws. Nor are there many tours that stop at the corner of 14th and Belmont, where stained couches lie cut open on the sidewalk. Washington is 70% black. Not all is poor black; the "Gold Coast'1 out along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty, a situation not improved after the riots of 1968, when...