Word: sidestreet
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...president’s mansion on Elmwood Avenue is far away from campus, in order to shield him from the roguish mobery of student vigilantes, a danger that admittedly did not go away when the Vietnam War did. The president’s house is on a small sidestreet off of Upper Brattle Street, appropriately nicknamed Tory Row since the palaces there were the homes of those sympathetic to the crown in the battle for American Independence two centuries ago. Those were not brave spirits. Those were cool considerate men of moderation and caution. Sellouts of their day. The president...
...Central Square sidestreet one evening a few months ago, I was stopped by a tall, gangly teenager...
...boredom of a city built from scratch in the isolated interior. Four-story apartment buildings and kids playing futebol line the quiet streets of these neighborhoods although the construction of a high-rise hotel occasionally pierces the calm. These districts have their weekly fruit-and-vegetable market on a sidestreet like the famous "Copacabana." But Copacabana has been honky-tonk and out-of-style ever since Fred and Ginger flew down to Rio 50 years...
...time though it is, JGE sticks stubbornly to small-time style. Its "showroom" is a small, carton-crammed section of a warehouse in a sidestreet in Bayside, Queens. All sales are for cash. Except for the Rosenbergs, who sometimes help unload trucks, only part-time employees mind the store. They include moonlighting policemen, housewives and four or five high school basketball players from the Friends' Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y. Clerks make no effort to push a particular brand or persuade customers to buy a higher-priced item; they simply take orders. Yet JGE turns over $300,000 worth...
...small sidestreet-Scotia Street near the Cheri theatres-policemen broke ranks and ran after demonstrators who had either lagged behind or fallen down. They struck about seven people with clubs, shoving one up against a brick wall and back to the street, hitting him repeatedly on the neck and back...