Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although Walk said the atmosphere in Dunster House has always been "very accepting," she added that "cliques are worse this year...
...leave, he was told he was free to go. As TIME reported in August 1979, the group encamped in the Wyoming Rockies, moving to a ranch in northern Texas when it snowed. Paul Groll, who was a member, scoffed at comparisons with Jonestown, telling TIME in 1979, "Anyone can walk away. We just have to turn from a caterpillar into a butterfly, and then we'll be ready to leave...
...funeral home where he was laid out. But Bridgeport is also the sort of community where a Mexican grocer can find his tires slashed, where a Chinese housewife can discover that someone has set her garbage cans on fire, and where a black mailman who had the temerity to walk into a bar on a June afternoon in 1993 to ask for a drink of water was beaten by two white men with a pool...
Some whites are determined to protect their dwindling enclave with an unwritten set of rules governing which avenues minority residents can walk on, which parks their children may play in and what time they must be off the streets. The rules are enforced subtly--steely glares, selective ticketing of cars, storekeepers who follow shoppers from aisle to aisle--and in more brutal fashion: racial epithets, trash thrown on lawns, windows shattered and beatings of the sort administered to Lenard Clark. "Here the No. 1 issue is color," says Curly Cohen, director of the Bridgeport Volunteer Center...
...Alvarado, coordinator of tourism services for the Times Square Business Improvement District: "One summer, when I was about to give birth to my first child, I came down to have lunch with my husband, who worked on 43rd and Sixth. I took the E train, so I had to walk down 42nd. Here I was, eight months pregnant, and I was offered everything from sex to cocaine. Eight months pregnant, and they wouldn't leave me alone." She is referring, of course, not to Martin and Lewis but to the pimps, hustlers and drug dealers who by the 1970s...