Word: sidewalkers
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...police, who had arrested him as a drunken woman being molested by three men, and did not discover his sex until they got him to the station house. Obligingly, the police let Kahler get into a black sheath cocktail dress for a filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before the Crosshatch shadow of prison bars...
Actually, the moose like to live where men and machines do, and frequently nuzzle up to Alaskan oil derricks to sidewalk-superintend the drilling. Instead of being driven out of the civilized areas, they are rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live...
Sometimes Roosevelt's fighting was impromptu. Frederic Almy, his class secretary, recalls that during a torchlight procession in the Hayes-Tilden presidential campaign a bystander on the sidewalk said something derogatory. The impulsive Teddy threupon, recording to Almy, "reached out and laid the mucker flat...
...shopping and slush in the Cambridge streets. It is a question of who rings the loudest--at the moment it was the Salvation Army's turn out in front of the Harvard Trust. Rain was coming down steadily and the Army bellringer was too for out on the sidewalk to get much protection from the bank's shelter. He huddled in his damp uniform and rang loudly to keep warm...
...will discover that bread is the staff of life, and that the Dutch spread everything from chocolate candies to fresh stawberries on their bread. He will learn to put mustard or mayonnaise, and not catsup, on the French fries he buys from sidewalk stands...