Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself. Newspapers refuse to advertise it and most bookstores won't stock it-possibly because storekeepers fear people might take too literally the title of Hoffman's latest opus, Steal This Book. Frustrated at every turn, the Yippie leader last week set up shop on the sidewalk outside one of Manhattan's bookshops and began hawking the book, which offers practical instruction in gypping telephone companies, mixing Molotov cocktails and sowing pot seed. Sure enough, more people stole than bought. After disposing of 50 copies of the $1.95 volume, Hoffman reported his day's gross...
...murder, according to an eyewitness account, occurred on the sidewalk outside Morgan Memorial Store at about 11:35 p.m. when the youth attempted to prevent a young woman from being molested by the assailant, who was described as being black, 6' 1", and about 22 years old. He allegedly carried two 44-calibre pistols and was wearing a brown hat, an army p-jacket, and bell-bottom dungaree pants...
...young people?" If you refuse, he or she will smile and turn away to someone else passing on the street. If you stop, and if you give some change and ask about it, you'll begin to hear about the Process, the Church that these evangelical fundraisers on various sidewalk stations in busy parts of Boston and Cambridge belong to. You'll be offered (for $2.50) one of their glossy, color-covered, large-print paperback books to help you understand more of what the Process is about and you may get an invitation to visit "The Cavern," a coffee-house...
...Sweepers. Against this background, Stokes and the council have put forth separate tax proposals-both defeated by the voters. The cutbacks came quickly: 1,700 city employees have been laid off, recreation and health programs were reduced, Clevelanders now have to haul their garbage to the sidewalk for collection, and street sweepers are unavailable to clean up after the collectors. No policemen or firemen have been laid off, but none will be hired, and the police academy has, been closed. The hiring freeze is certain to erase the 2.1% decrease in crime in downtown Cleveland, which Stokes' administration...
...equivalent to drilling a hole From the sidewalk into a bank vault Pumping out money And calling it free-enterprise discovery...