Word: street
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to wear white uniforms, like nurse's uniforms. Some people decided to stop me on the street and ask for help one time. Now we have these shirts." She looked down at her heavy, green Harvard University Dining Services polo, and shook her head. "They're all right in the winter but not so great right now." It was a warm, humid afternoon. "You sweat. There's no way you could wear make-up in here. And back then when I started, we didn't use IDs. There was a board with kids' names on it. It was huge...
Still, Bush was bent on having a good time at Yale. Walker remembers walking home with Bush one night when his friend suddenly shouted, "Let's rock and roll--you rock and I'll roll!" Blocks away from campus, the someday Texas governor began to log roll down the street...
...walking down the street, you wouldn't have had a clue that his father was a congressman or that he went to prep school," Deeter says. "He had a real strong identification with growing up in Texas...
...love the British I don't particularly care for the monarchy and never have. To me the symbol of Britishness was never the bejeweled Queen, but rather that single, smiling, unarmed police officer (a "bobby") standing guard before the door of the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. That was what the British stood for in my mind. Not extravagant pageantry, but a sense of tradition tempered by a cheerful reasonableness...
Sources: The New York Times; Wall Street Journal; WHDH Boston; the New Yorker; International Red Cross & Red Crescent; Business Week...