Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City law also prohibits parking on the left side of any one-way street, upon any sidewalk, upon any crosswalk, more than one feet from the curb, less than ten feet from a fire hydrant, or in front of any private road or driveway...
...most horrible thing was a little girl, about 13. She stood on the sidewalk with some other kids, just a few yards from the savage fighting. Her nose was running, her flaxen hair was wet and bedraggled, and she had a sore under one of her eyes, which were pale blue and showed no emotion or even comprehension of the scene. With the other children, she was chanting, "Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin, Jules Moch, assassin...
...sidewalk cafes, in dreary queues, on street corners and stubble-strewn fields throughout the world, men paused last week (as every week) to pass a word with their fellows and lighten their burdens with a wry joke. Here 85 there, as the talk shuttled, TIME'S correspondents bent an ear to listen...
...Lotsa Luck." On the way back to the Hotel Roosevelt, Dewey's car suddenly stopped, and he stepped out with Mrs. Dewey. They strolled through the sidewalk crowds, Dewey politely doffing his Homburg to amazed passersby, bidding them a gracious good morning. "Lotsa luck, Dewey," yelled a cab driver...
...Saturday night and early Sunday, special trains and rumbling trucks disgorged comrades from the hinterland. By noon, Rome's streets were jammed with perspiring, singing men, women & children-most of them wearing red bandannas and clutching lunch hampers. Brazenly they occupied chairs and tables in sidewalk cafes, opened their lunches and nibbled leisurely, tossing melon rinds and bread crusts into the streets. Outraged cafe owners cursed the invaders. The comrades only laughed: "This is the people...