Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlem, where hulking Ben Davis, one of the convicted Communist leaders, was defending his seat on the city council. It was the only elective office in the U.S. held by a Communist, and the party poured its resources into the fight. Comrades sent sound trucks crisscrossing the district, harangued street-corner meetings nightly, and Candidate Davis shouted himself out of voice...
...lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
...Complete Calm." Within two hours, the tension lifted. This was no April 9 for Bogotá. Well-drilled military police on every street corner made that plain. At 9 p.m. curfew the government announced...
Last week Sculptor Roussil hoisted his 12-ft., 700-lb. piece into a truck and drove it to Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street for exhibition in the Art Centre. He arrived late and, finding the Art Centre closed for the night, he casually left his statue out on the lawn...
...told to go down to the street and wait for the cab. Ten minutes later I rode to Stillman and paid the fare, which doesn't come out of the $15 infirmary fee. I went in and gave the receptionist some forms, and she gave me some forms. Upstairs, I got undressed, filled out a form, and went to bed, and a nurse took my temperature...