Word: twos
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...been mugged or robbed by young black thugs; karate and gun clubs thrive in the white suburbs. White commuters call the city "Indian country," never argue with black motorists and avoid walking downtown except in broad daylight. During the Christmas shopping season, police loudspeakers warned: "Walk in twos after dark, keep your hands on your purse, stay away from alleys, and have a merry Christmas...
...Daria and Mark make love in a Mojave riverbed (and it is fairly anti-social to do it in that much dirt), more and more lovers seem to materialize all over the desert basin until it is covered with playfully wrestling, fornicating bodies that tumble down the dunes in twos and threes and fours. It was as happy a post-revolutionary vision as anyone has ever imagined...
However, the department said it would grant the permit for the 40-hour "March Against Death" planned to start late November 13 and end just before the mass march. The plan is for about 50,000 to march in a file of twos from Arlington National Cemelery, past the White House to the Capitol...
...investment tax credit. The vote appeared closer than the issue actually was; G.O.P. leaders had been assured by many members that their votes were Nixon's if the measure actually faced defeat on the floor. Minority Whip Leslie Arends marched Republicans in from the cloakroom by ones and twos until he had enough votes to put the surtax over the top. One hundred and fifty-four Republicans supported the surtax. Only 56 Democrats went along with the Administration bill...
...there is also life." To visitors who come to the gallery, he passes out small square blocks of white plaster with a carnation embedded in each. Despite only two guarded references in the censored Greek press, Athenians have made their way to the gallery in droves. They come in twos and threes, solemn, quiet, and most make their comments in whispers. But a few have been more outspoken. Said one young man: "The wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed...