Word: sidewalkers
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...worry about it," said Karl as he checked the wire at the tenth-floor window, some 100 ft. above the sidewalk. "The wind is stronger on the street than up here...
...reached out for the cable with one hand, but he was still holding the balancing bar and could not get a grip on the cable. Down he went, still holding onto the pole. Ten stories below, he landed on the roof of a taxi and bounced off onto the sidewalk. At the hospital, he was pronounced dead of massive internal injuries...
...Cafeteria. They were strolling back to the courthouse at 11:55 a.m. when there were two bursts of gunfire. Flynt toppled forward, face first, onto a concrete driveway, bullet holes in his abdomen. Reeves, struck in his arm and chest, staggered a few feet and collapsed on the sidewalk (he was later reported to be in satisfactory condition...
...plaintive zither of The Third Man gives way to a sorrowful silence in The Human Factor. The development of Castle's motivation is a little thin; his fleeting interest in religious faith seems like a crack in the sidewalk that Greene is compelled to step on. Despite the title, compassion is not the novel's strong point. It is rather the author's bitterness and sense of inevitability about "the intelligent and the corrupt," the Mullers who talk calmly about final solutions and the agents who plan the murder of a colleague between mouthfuls of smoked trout...
...people have been killed since November in an officially sanctioned campaign of violence that government officials describe as "justifiable terror." Every night members of a counterrevolutionary group of so-called white terrorists are slain in the streets. One day last week a young man lay dead on a sidewalk near the city's busy marketplace; to his chest was pinned a note warning citizens of the dangers of dissent...