Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lindsay covered every corner of the city, usually perching on a sound truck to shout his messaees. He came me ticulously briefed for each neighborhood, referred familiarly to its specific problems-the need for a playground, a subway stop, new school facilities. Always Lindsay damned the Wagner administration for its isolation from the people. "The mayor ought to be in intimate touch with the blood and guts of the city," he cried. "There won't be a person hurt or frightened but we'll know it at city hall." He promised a batch of neighborhood mayor...
...York City subway advertisement...
...came on the stage of London's Royal Festival Hall like a subway commuter at rush hour. Briskly threading his way through the orchestra, he plopped down on his chair, tossed a quick glance at the conductor and began to play-so abruptly that he took the audience by surprise. Head bobbing, lips pursed in concentration, he embraced his cello bear-hug fashion and sawed away with the workaday look of a man slicing bread...
...called for volunteers to meet at the entrance to the Park Street Subway Station Monday at 4 p.m. Spokesmen said the march would protest "the misdirection of domestic priorities because of Massachusetts' involvement with the military," and "the brutality of the war in Vietnam...
...subway from Harlem that morning, Window Washer Benny Robinson and the Negro girl on the next strap had been rubbing against each other happily-when a sudden stop threw her against a middle-aged white man, whom she accused of improper advances. Funny thing, it was the same white man Benny punched in the eye in the race incident a few hours later. And the same man again whom Benny found sitting behind the desk when he applied for a job that afternoon. Now that same night, in whose fancy home had Benny's wife just gone to work...