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Word: slinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrestle among the blackened cans and broken glass. Men sit on the stoops of the rotting brownstone tenements, or stand in curiously static groups around a store front. There are girls in short, shiny black dresses, insolent-eyed young bucks in sharp, striped suits. Dogs, furtive and thin-ribbed, slink through the areaways sniffing for scraps. In an abandoned building, windows glare emptily, but a family is living in the basement. From other windows patched with adhesive tape and cardboard, women watch the noisy street with worried eyes. They seldom scream-at the kids, as women of other lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: World They Never Made | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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