Word: sidewalkers
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...short, wrinkled woman with faded blonde hair who is wearing a mud-spattered white raincoat walks along the sidewalk of the Memorial Bridge above the recently-receded waters of the Susquehanna. She is walking on broken white high heels, swaying awkwardly with each step. "I haven't got anything," she shouts to a passerby, "do you?" She walks on talking in a strained voice: "Well, we're safe and sound at my sister's and it's very nice but my aunt and I we both got it to the second floor and I had to wait in the attic...
...using his electric shave-cream warmer in the morning, he might use 15 additional minutes of light to read at night, or he could watch a ball game on TV instead of using electric edge trimmers to cut a few blades of grass growing over the edge of the sidewalk...
...charged with felonies during one recent year cited by the court. In contrast, said Douglas, "it is estimated that there are annually between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 court cases involving misdemeanors," not counting traffic infractions. Misdemeanors vary from state to state, ranging from spitting on the sidewalk to public drunkenness to carrying a concealed weapon -the crime for which a Florida indigent named Jon Richard Argersinger was convicted (it was his trial without counsel that led to the court ruling). Some authorities believe that as many as half of such offenders are indigents, though...
Miller had been in this state since May 14, the day (and night) he had sat on the sidewalk in front of the Sears on Telegraph Avenue for 22 hours in order to buy tickets for the concert. "I missed the Stones in '65, when they came through my home town in New York. They only did one song because everybody went bananas and started a riot. I missed 'em again in '69, when I was in college, but this time...
...like the Viet Nam War, McGovern has only rarely been plagued by trouble with dissidents, and when it happens it causes more laughter than concern. Outside a longshoremen's headquarters where McGovern spoke, a brassy San Francisco redhead caused something of a stir when she paraded on the sidewalk with a sign urging