Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loaded down with sleeping bags and hot coffee, the first spectators began lining up along the wedding route the afternoon before. "It's a beautiful night, and we'll be perfectly happy," said a woman from Hampshire, who was preparing to sleep on the sidewalk with her 11-year-old granddaughter. "I wanted my granddaughter to remember that she saw this with her grandmother." By early morning the streets were bedecked with 12-ft.-long Union Jacks and white and purple flags bearing the initials A and M. Tens of thousands of people jammed the route to catch...
According to Hull, around 1 a.m. on September 26, he heard shouts and cries from the street below his room. From his window he saw two men, both white, kicking a prone black man on the sidewalk of Mass...
Farther down the street the soulful sound of reggae music booms out over the sidewalk from a record shop, adding a beautiful sound to an ugly and scarred landscape. Around the corner, train tracks run overhead, their heavy cargo drowning out the noise of the busy open-air market below. On the corner, a group of militant black and white Marxists bombards passers-by with pamphlets arguing the "class nature of the oppression of blacks on all fronts--economic, political and cultural...
...doubt the church did not think much of people tip-toeing through the tomb stones, and the mall plan never got off the ground. Pedestrians still have to dodge cars, except on sidewalk sale Saturdays when they have to dodge people...
...Justice Department's willingness to allow Agnew to exact this leniency created wide controversy. Certainly, it was no shining example of equality under law. Many of the political radicals whom Agnew had condemned spent months in jail awaiting various conspiracy trials before being acquitted. The sidewalk mugger can spend years in prison for a $50 robbery. Nonetheless, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and, implicitly, Richard Nixon probably served the larger public interest by getting Agnew out of office the quickest way possible...