Word: subways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...store will make way for a terminal in Washington's new subway system; but that is not what killed it. Such shops are simply no longer profitable. Books require space that is more and more costly in downtown buildings. The choice out-of-print and rare books are being absorbed by new colleges and universities, especially since tax laws now make it more profitable for collectors to donate their libraries to institutions than to sell them. Fewer Americans collect books now, and more and more often they get them from book clubs, or buy paperbacks...
Lyons is small and frail-looking; on the rush-hour subway home to West 81st Street, he is just another straphanger. He demonstrates his own unrecognizability by spotting people reading "The Lyons Den" and saying to them, just before he gets off the train, "Not a bad column." Sylvia is always home to greet him, and if she sees lipstick on his cheek, she knows he's having a good day. "I figure Charles Revson kissed him," she says...
...started with martial intoxication. It seemed as if we were riding the subway to a war and needed only some General Patt?n to tell us that we were gonna meet destiny at Park Street station. Riding the escalator up through the dark who knew what was going to happen? Will the Revolution begin today: heart pounding, some part of me churning out anger and bile in amazing degree, and suddenly as I reach the street and see everybody else nervous o? flipped out I know that it's not about to happen, and have no idea whether it ever...
...instant. We walked past all sorts of stores and out into Government Center. where there were two speeches which seemed to be about absolutely nothing. It didn't make any difference. The people who had come to march to Government Center then split on the Government Center subway, and the people who had come to throw rocks headed up Tremont again to throw rocks. I saw about five thrown... mostly at bank windows along the way. The police very wisely did nothing at all. If they had, something might have happened-a cop killed, cut off from others, mauled...
...crowd of about 300 remained in the Common even after the first police charge on the Park St. subway stop. Police again charged, wielding their three-foot clubs and driving squad cars to disperse the crowd. Chased into the streets, the Cemonstrators began breaking windows in the apartment buildings and private homes along Charles St. Eight plate-glass windows in store fronts at Beacon and Charles Sts. were broken by rocks thrown by the demon strator-many of them apparently of high school...