Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pierce told the subcommittee last month he had no direct role in funding decisions in the Section 8 or any other program. Since then, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Pierce intervened on behalf of several associates, including a former law partner. Subcommittee members have told Pierce, who has moved back to Manhattan to resume his law and business dealings, that they want to question him again...
...father was a banker, a numbers man who always seemed to be hunched over a column of figures. He was also a semipro football player who competed into middle age for the old Cincinnati Bengals. "When I was young," the son recalls, "people would stop me on the street to tell me I could never be what my father...
...hottest rentals. Television gets its share of attention. Before summer reruns took over the tube, the women found that Moonlighting was funny again, and the wacky comedy of Tracey Ullman acquired a growing following. The women who watched The New Perry Mason marveled at the good shape of Della Street's legs. Mused Shaffer: "What exercises has Della been doing...
Conversation, Toad thought, was best when walking, since talk itself is an ambling. Toad even talked better to himself when walking -- though if he moved his lips when doing it, he looked like a street crazy. It was at last in the walking that Toad's soul, he found, was most at rest...
...Trinidad. A member of neither the white ruling class nor the black majority, he was part of the island's large, self-contained Indian community. As a child, he lived a Hindu village life in the country. In Port- of-Spain during World War II, he experienced a polyglot street life that included the language of American G.I.s. Later, as a scholarship student at Oxford, the accents were more refined, but the sense of being a colonial was even stronger...