Word: street
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...commission has prepared a brochure and sent out a public service message to all the radio stations in the state to encourage blind people "to wait until they're sure," before crossing the street and to ask other people to offer their assistance to the blind...
While all this is going on inside the embassy, the prisoners have had to endure yet another terrifying pressure coming from outside-the endless roar of crowds in the street chanting "Death to America!" Said Terri Tedford, 41, an embassy secretary: "It had a very definite effect on me. I don't think I could have lasted another week, not another...
...list of individualists that Boston's Beacon Hill has nurtured over the centuries, add Richard White, 24, a day laborer, writer and naturalist who shuns, literally, current affairs: his apartment on Myrtle Street has no electricity or gas. He explains: "I eat only natural food, and I buy enough to last me only a day, so I don't need a refrigerator. I don't need gas because I don't believe in heating food. It destroys the nutrients...
...People think I'm a big-shot movie star, and some of wr my friends have started to treat me differently. But I tell them I'm just like any other kid on the street. This hasn't changed me at all." It is easy to take fame when you're 80 or 8½, which Justin Henry is now. And his four-month plunge into the glamorous world of big stars and big movies affected him about as much as a summer at camp. It was, he insists, "no big thing...
...more than 450 worshipers, too many for the building to hold, overflow outside, getting the word through a loudspeaker that echoes down the street. Pastor Yakov Dukhonchenko is Ukrainian senior presbyter for the government-recognized All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists, those Soviet Protestants who have chosen to accept state regulation. This makes him a rival of Georgi Vins, a leader of the reform Baptists, who was stripped of citizenship and exiled to the U.S. this year in a prisoner exchange. Says Dukhonchenko: "Georgi Vins said it was impossible to evangelize, but the churches function freely and can preach...