Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawson ran into trouble in San Diego, where, as an "avid pedestrian," he was stopped repeatedly for vagrancy on his midnight walks, prosecuted twice and convicted once under a provision of the state's penal code that required him to produce "credible and reliable" identification for any police officer who had reason to be suspicious. Lawson saw the matter simply: he was black, his looks were not conventional, and he was treading white sidewalks. His suit called the law unconstitutionally vague and said it violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" and the Fifth Amendment...
...Hurricanes with the accompanying souvenir glass. Perhaps this happened to the sailors, who sat at a table near the stage surrounded on three sides by a senior citizens tour group from Florida. They kept looking at each other, then at their drinks, then back at each other, while a pedestrian Dixieland group on the bandstand honked its way through the St. James Infirmary blues. Finally they got up and left, each carrying three souvenir glasses in individual plastic bags...
Handel said he had seen a policeman call a gay pedestrian a "faggot", and he also testified that the police department was purposefully slow in responding to reports of harassment of gays and lesbians...
...Brown University student who ran over and killed a pedestrian last November now faces three felony charges, The Brown Daily Herald reported...
...salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." And, "It is desirable that the burden of all should be equal, but it is still more desirable to put an end to robbery and murder." Thus stated the case for the constrained vision becomes more impressive than Sowell's rather pedestrian prose could otherwise have made...