Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long cord, passed round his waist, to the elephant's hind leg. The latter is urged into a rapid trot through the streets of the city, and every step gives the cord a violent jerk, which makes the body of the condemned wretch bound on the pavement . . . Then his head is placed upon a stone, and the elephant executioner crushes it beneath his enormous foot...
After his retirement from the New York Knicks in 1975, he began pounding the New Jersey pavement pressing the flesh in hopes of gaining one of the Garden State's Senate seats. As most basketball fans and political observers know, Bradley was successful and is in the fourth year of his second career...
This bias should come as no surprise, given the magazine's format: Most professions outside the world of finance simply do not lend themselves to tips on how to get in on the job market.("It's just a matter of pounding the pavement and convincing the boss that you want that positional," says post Allen Ginsberg...
...Callahan's description of auto-racing "ghouls" illustrates the American fascination with violence. But printing action photos of Gordon Smiley being killed and lying dead on the pavement caters to the sickness that your article condemns...
...revenue for Warner almost six times that of their record business, five times that of the film division and about 47 times that of their Oscar-winning movie Chariots of Fire. No wonder Hollywood looks a bit like Wall Street back when the brokers started to hit the pavement...