Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shopkeepers lock their doors and refuse to buzz them in, provoking an agonizing debate about whether such actions are justified. In New York City, conflicted emotions simmer to the surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty: the young, black males...
Gould writes of the excitement of growing up in New York City during its reign of baseball glory. "The fifties were the greatest baseball years that any single city ever experienced. We had three great teams and seven subway Series in the 10 years between 1947 and 1956," he said...
...unemployment. James' interview with a pub manager revealed that he knew "bugger all" about the wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief...
...weeks ago, a jury considering charges under the much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...
...friend evokes an image that captures Gordon's energy: "Jennifer was great at dealing with the subway in Mexico this summer. The Mexico City subways are tremendously overcrowded, but tiny as she is, she was able to squeeze through and always get out first...