Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir said the Commission works all year round, "sitting on every street corner," educating people about the voting process. She has run registration booths at the Science Center and the Freshman Union in recent days for Harvard students to register as Cambridge voters...
When the National Football League rushed to show interest in Johnson, the wicked smiles widened. In that industry, street drugs represent only a 30-day rap and steroids remain a private matter. Throughout the big leagues of athletic excellence, just the natural excesses have become awesome. The mammoth Washington Redskins tackle Dave Butz was once asked if the pain ahead, the accumulated remnants of 16 seasons, chilled him. No, but the reports of short life expectancy were worrying. "You can live with a lot of pain," he said sagely, "but you've got to be alive...
...voice from Florida." He bows and launches into Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven. Fellowship and fun count for more than tonal quality in barbershopping, a thriving movement that celebrates a unique song style: the four-part unaccompanied harmony that flourished at the turn of the century on porches, street corners, saloons and, yes, barbershops across America. In its early years, barbershop singing was pretty much a male preserve, but today both men and women perform. SPEBSQSA is an organization for men interested in preserving barbershop harmony; Sweet Adelines and Harmony Incorporated are similar groups for women...
...sharply lower price. But they were on the trail again by January, closing in on Stop & Shop. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts stepped in, as it had with Safeway, to help engineer a leveraged buyout, but the Hafts made $17 million dumping their stock as the price rose. Wall Street wags joked that Kohlberg should pay Dart a finder's fee for clients...
...murder spree seemed well planned. At 7:30 p.m. last Friday, bands of local Sindhis sped through the Pakistani city of Hyderabad and opened fire on crowded street markets, movie houses and bus stops. They even attacked a wedding party. The massacre claimed the lives of at least 160 Mohajirs, a people who immigrated to Pakistan after India was partitioned in 1947. Then came the revenge. In Karachi, 100 miles away, gangs of Mohajirs sprayed Sindhi neighborhoods with gunfire, killing about 50 people...