Word: sidewalkers
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...street clothes are jogging beside another racer. "Come on, Joe. Attaboy. Almost there." At the corner of Exeter street they stop and he heads for the finish line alone. The street is broad and empty and he runs straight down the middle of it. On the sidewalk, a little girl is whimpering because her balloon has been destroyed...
Blood for Blood. The inevitable happened. Hindu sidewalk orators, telling wild stories of atrocities against refugees, urged the people to "avenge" their Hindu brothers in Pakistan. Shouting "Blood for blood," Hindu mobs rushed through the city burning, looting and killing...
...with an armor-filled hunting room and a kitchen that could serve a 40-place dinner at the drop of a bottle cap. One story has it that once, when driving in his open coach near the brewery, Adolphus waved graciously back to admiring friends and retainers on the sidewalk and said to a friend: "You see, choost like a king...
...swung his crutches over the puddle, lifting his cast and its wooly sock carefully so it wouldn't splash in the slush. The crutch tips banged solidly against the sidewalk; Vag raised them again, and then plunged them into the crust of melting snow at the end of a driveway...
...bells of "Madrid's venerable Town Hall pealed out a quarter to midnight. In front of the unpretentious apartment house at No. 10 Calle de la Vega the night watchman banged his stick on the sidewalk, clanked a ring of keys, then unlocked the door for a party of four plainclothesmen. The visitors walked up the stairs to the apartment of Don Bernardo Bernardez, 63, respected executive of the Banco Iberico and well-known elder of Spain's monarchist movement...