Search Details

Word: sidewalkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Upon reentering Harvard Square, Teddy explained that the Square is an urban utopia for the unshoed. The classical sidewalk construction technique of using individual red bricks oriented side-by-side, which is so common in and around the Square, leaves tiny gaps that serve as useful repositories for meddlesome glass, rocks and rusty nails that could spoil an otherwise lovely barefooted jaunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Your Mind, Free Your Feet | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...reminded of elementary school when Karen H. Lincoln ’05 told him how much she hated Jake Q. Wiley ’05 while Wiley gave her the finger. But there was nothing childish about the way the two started sucking face 45 minutes later on the sidewalk in front of Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy! | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

Some marketers have found that they don't need people at all to spread the word. Even before the trendy energy drink Red Bull hit the shelves in England a few years ago, a London agency called Cake Creative Consultancy filled sidewalk trash cans and pub tables in Newcastle with empty cans of the stuff. Cake executives readily talk about the campaign, but in a sign of how sensitive stealth marketing has become, Red Bull claims, without elaboration, that the story is apocryphal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S AN AD, AD, AD, AD World | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...watch potential terrorists, cannot freely talk to each other. If the intelligence squad finds out through a wiretap that a bomb is about to be set off, it cannot instantly tip off a criminal squad, so the would-be villains can be rounded up. Also, the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy is undermined; evidence produced by FISA wiretaps cannot be used to support an arrest for a mundane crime like credit-card fraud. Ashcroft and his aides regard the situation as silly and dangerous. "We've been trying to break the wall down so we can deal with this threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way To Secure A Homeland? | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...recent days, the Xiang River's mustard-colored waters have submerged much of the island itself. Anxious residents in skiffs and rafts paddle their belongings to higher ground or to the river bank a few hundred meters away. A dozen families live in the open air on a concrete sidewalk within sight of their flooded homes and businesses. Rao Houxing stacks a few crates of soda and soy milk that he's salvaged from his shop for thirsty neighbors who are reduced to washing their clothes in a river that now flows down the street. Rao glances at his flooded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water World | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

Previous | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | Next