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  • With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay.†   (source)
  • Father walked out into the urban jungle of Pondicherry and bought a cow with dark wet eyes, a nice fat hump and horns so straight and at such right angles to its head that it looked as if it had licked an electrical outlet.†   (source)
  • They called her a "strong voice in an urban wilderness" and "a radiant beacon, shedding light on the need to curtail continued overdevelopment of our once quaint and tranquil community."†   (source)
  • In poor urban neighborhoods across the United States, black and brown boys routinely have multiple encounters with the police.†   (source)
  • Cities all around us are booming urban centers: Charleston, Atlanta, Jacksonville— but not Savannah.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, my life passed in a blur, that blessing of urban routine.†   (source)
  • Here in the city, you'll be used to your surroundings, and this Count Olaf is the only relative who lives within the urban limits.†   (source)
  • Belinda brought up a video feed of a busy urban street with a few hundred people visible and walking to and from the camera, unaware they were being watched.†   (source)
  • I said I thought that the Reagan administration exhibited "an urban distaste for the concrete."†   (source)
  • Do you know what that canister could do to an urban area?†   (source)
  • Basic urban survival.†   (source)
  • I remember District 8, an ugly urban place stinking of industrial fumes, the people housed in run-down tenements.†   (source)
  • D. she's doing on urban youth violence, even though Lilly complained that we're hardly qualified to comment, seeing as how the only youth violence any of us had ever experienced was when there was a sale on relaxed fit jeans at the Gap on Madison Avenue.†   (source)
  • Professor Van Buren will give what I am sure will be a fascinating illustrated lecture on "The Warsaw Tactic: Policies of Urban Core Encirclement in the Gileadean Civil Wars."†   (source)
  • In the weeks before the dinner I went on several urban scouting expeditions.†   (source)
  • The front was a photograph of urban row houses.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help but wonder why more wasn't being done to prevent the surplus of drug trafficking in urban neighborhoods like mine.†   (source)
  • We had gotten to a lonelier stretch of road, straight and desolate, where the traffic was sparse and the streetlamps were farther apart, and the bracing crack and sparkle of the old city, its lighted tracery, its hidden designsilver skates, happy children beneath the tree—had given way to a more familiar urban bleakness: Fotocadeau, Locksmith Sleutelkluis, signs in Arabic, Shoarma, Tandoori Kebab, gates down, everything closed.†   (source)
  • For centuries in Europe, they had been forbidden to own land, so they had clustered in cities and towns, taking up urban trades and professions.†   (source)
  • A grill stood on the deck, and I could smell the hot dogs and chicken cooking; the guy leaning over it was shirtless and wearing a do-rag, trying to come across as urban cool.†   (source)
  • Cool in that he had his own rockery style, procured from thrift stores and garage sales, not from Urban Outfitters knockoffs.†   (source)
  • I remembered the funeral of His Holiness Pope Urban XV shortly before I left Pacem.†   (source)
  • They spoke of their days of "growing up in Mississippi" or wherever it was, as proof of their knowledge of poverty and blackness, but in fact the closest most of them had come to an urban ghetto in twenty years was from behind the wheel of a locked Honda.†   (source)
  • But the good—young people changing their lives, the growth of organized urban peace efforts, the expansion of spiritual-based practices and the intensifying debate on how to address violence in this country—have far outweighed the had.†   (source)
  • Ours was what urban planners call a changing neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Romanticism was in the main an urban phenomenon.†   (source)
  • The balloon traveled over urban Pittsburgh, back and forth above the city's famous three rivers.†   (source)
  • Contract it out to some urban gardeners.†   (source)
  • Urban Meyer was named the new head coach at the University of Florida and called Hugh Freeze every single day for the next two weeks, hoping to be invited into the Tuohy home.†   (source)
  • Sophie wasn't especially frightened of them, though like everyone else she had heard the horror stories, urban legends and FOAF friend of a friend stories about the scavengers.†   (source)
  • I remember one time when we were on a RUT (real urban training).†   (source)
  • In the aftermath of the Blaxik battle, their adrenaline still pumping, Dodge and the white rook braved a walk through the teeming urban slum Wonderland had become to remind themselves why they fought.†   (source)
  • Not too many people knew about al Qaeda then, but they supplied Aidid with weapons and trained his militia in urban warfare tactics like setting up burning barricades and fighting street to street.†   (source)
  • It was all about President Johnson trying to get a bill passed to help the urban poor, and then something about the Pueblo, which had been taken over by the North Koreans.†   (source)
  • You kids'll all find out when I buy the farm and those urban renewal poops turn this place into a parking lot.†   (source)
  • That was really where we were blooded for battle, combing those urban streets, flushing out insurgents wherever they hid.†   (source)
  • Together they had defeated gravity and conquered the soft gumbo of Chicago soil, to change forever the character of urban life; now, together, they would build the fair and change history.†   (source)
  • Pete's Cafe is there, along with a few gentrified apartment buildings, the homes of artists and young urban pioneers.†   (source)
  • Pretty soon, Clarkston, or at least the part of Clarkston consisting of apartment complexes, found itself caught in a familiar cycle of urban decay.†   (source)
  • During the recruiting process, I became very close to Les Miles at Louisiana State, Mike Shula at Alabama, and Urban Meyer at Florida.†   (source)
  • Kynes had come with a Fremen escort, which could mean simply that the Fremen were testing their new freedom to enter urban areas—but it had seemed an honor guard.†   (source)
  • While he was still in Europe, the previous one had caused the death of a quarter of the urban population in less than three months; among the victims was his father, who was also a highly esteemed physician.†   (source)
  • The Bureau always placed experiments in the Midwest, because there's more space between urban areas here.†   (source)
  • He says that in the old days of his urban entanglements he believed there was only one way to seduce a woman, with clear and open desire.†   (source)
  • It was my job to review movies for the eZine, and since I'd already seen every other movie showing at the theater, we'd resigned ourselves to the latest urban chiller.†   (source)
  • When the crisis passed, fast food stock prices recovered, and McDonald's intensified its efforts to open urban, as well as suburban, restaurants.†   (source)
  • Malan introduced the Group Areas Act—which he described as "the very essence of apartheid"—requiring separate urban areas for each racial group.†   (source)
  • Evan Malone, urban legend'eighteen and in league with Satan, skinning goats up at Chamberlain Flat.†   (source)
  • Urban Chinese men typically involve themselves more in household tasks like cooking and child care than most American men do.†   (source)
  • The sun was burning down beyond the horizon now, flooding the sky with blood and roses, turning the edge of the river to liquid gold, softening the ugliness of the urban waste all around them.†   (source)
  • No urban sounds or voices were to be heard here; only the stillness of a forest and the quiet of death.†   (source)
  • It's pretty urban.†   (source)
  • This was urban renewal.†   (source)
  • It was one of a legion of buses, trains, and rusting automobiles that carried the dark children of the South toward the seductive call of wartime jobs and freedom in urban areas above the Mason-Dixon.†   (source)
  • There was that urban-dweller wistfulness in her voice.†   (source)
  • They constituted the sort of criminals, petty and otherwise, who sucked the life out of urban areas.†   (source)
  • Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center.†   (source)
  • I reinterpreted Don Quixote as a modern urban parable and made Sancho the hero.†   (source)
  • A month and a half later, Team TWO was training in a MOUT (military operations on urban terrain) village on a base in Alabama.†   (source)
  • We rushed to look out, and could see water flooding from lower windows into the street, where soldiers in gray urban camo were clinging to lampposts and fire hydrants to keep from being washed away by the icy waves.†   (source)
  • Want to get up early on Sunday and go to church at Glide in the Tenderloin, and then go on a six-hour urban hike with pit stops for bloody Marys?†   (source)
  • I'd become an urban legend—the monster who lived in the New York sewer system.†   (source)
  • Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged on its economic promises.†   (source)
  • He was living in a little house in Jacksonville, Alabama, a college and mill town that was the closest urban center—with its stoplights and a high school and two supermarkets—to the country roads we roamed in our raggedy cars.†   (source)
  • Knox was talking specifically about New York City, but his concluding thoughts on this process could be applied to all large urban centers.†   (source)
  • Outside the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, you're aware of a relative urban quiet.†   (source)
  • "In our culture, it's not proper for a Pima to seek recognition," tribal leader Urban Giff explained to me.†   (source)
  • It's urban legend.†   (source)
  • He had the hard-drinking, solitary nature of a cowboy but now found himself in a vast urban desert with five children.†   (source)
  • On this night, we were in Miami doing some urban training.†   (source)
  • But it's never been verified, and people have always dismissed it as urban-legend stuff.†   (source)
  • A satellite or manned capsule lands in a major neutralist urban center.†   (source)
  • Where San Franciscans saw an urban nuisance, Charles Howard saw opportunity.†   (source)
  • When urban renewal tore down my parents' laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful.†   (source)
  • The area was in the process of renovation; however, like similar projects in urban blights the world over, the progress had two speeds: slow and stop.†   (source)
  • Millions of people in America's urban centers helplessly watched the red spots spread over their bodies.†   (source)
  • Police snipers in urban settings typically shot at ranges under a hundred feet.†   (source)
  • The RS-fifties were the official weapon of choice during the Urban Revolt and into the third decade of the twenty-first century.†   (source)
  • except Saturday but calls are relayed at other hours, home inside urban pressure as travel time never exceeds seventeen minutes.†   (source)
  • The owner of the urban bus company had offered his whole fleet to bring thousands of people to the airport for free.†   (source)
  • Surfer Dude or Valley Girl, the urban black language of hip-hop artists, or any of a dozen other regional or ethnic dialects that together constitute American English—some of them barely intelligible to one another?†   (source)
  • Women, especially in urban areas, are naturally defensive.†   (source)
  • To the west was a fat moon glimpsed through the trees, a silvery promise beyond the bleak urban woods.†   (source)
  • We will eliminate the 'resistance of the rural infesters and then you will send people of the urban colonic's to collect the syrup.†   (source)
  • It had been a long time since I had been in a city, but now after Homer, my beloved black family, the commune and losing Cooper, it was time to take another look at urban America.†   (source)
  • Four and a half centuries later, Pope Urban II would dispatch an expeditionary force numbering several thousand European Christians to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims, whom he regarded as a people "alien to God."†   (source)
  • But were Oedipa some single melted crystal of urban horse.†   (source)
  • "It's a very urban book," I added, "very special, you know, a little too much of the smell of the streets about it."†   (source)
  • I asked you, if you saw my letter, should we put in all new meters, all the same kind, would that be justified, or would it be cheaper in the long run to reevaluate the whole parking system, what with urban renewal making havoc of what we got?†   (source)
  • The living language of our time, born spontaneously and naturally in accord with its spirit, is the language of urban-ism.†   (source)
  • Almost a thousand state police officers, many of them there with SWAT teams, armed for urban combat.†   (source)
  • The sign at Rachel's feet said, URBAN ART FOR KIDS, DONATIONS APPRECIATED.†   (source)
  • End of urban sprawl and pleeb city limits, beginning of Compound turfdom.†   (source)
  • Urban environments are way more energy efficient than rural ones.†   (source)
  • But they're also loud and attract attention in an urban environment.†   (source)
  • Our teatro group, however, had an urban slant.†   (source)
  • It was a place called Thr3ads, which specialized in "high-tech urban street wear."†   (source)
  • They didn't have a skill specifie to the urban economy.†   (source)
  • We were all looking for a large open space hidden in an urban landscape.†   (source)
  • I gazed upon this urban hurly-burly like someone observing a city from a hot-air balloon.†   (source)
  • He became a pioneer in modern urban planning.†   (source)
  • He didn't even know whether I was going to a rural or urban environment.†   (source)
  • They were all tough fighters, but they had a lot to learn about urban warfare.†   (source)
  • It became symbolic of the cold and dehumanizing effects of urban life.†   (source)
  • Gangs roamed the streets, urban youth gangs essentially, some Tutsi and some Hutu.†   (source)
  • In the hearth burned a fire as big as an urban riot.†   (source)
  • I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.†   (source)
  • I work with structural engineers, urban designers.†   (source)
  • Over half the world's population lived in urban areas.†   (source)
  • Within a five-year period, the homicide rate among young urban blacks quadrupled.†   (source)
  • A satellite or manned capsule lands in a major Soviet urban center.†   (source)
  • Baltimore, with its bustling harbor and urban grit, awaited him.†   (source)
  • Most of White Castle's customers were urban, working class, and male.†   (source)
  • What freedom am I being offered when I must ask for permission to live in an urban area?†   (source)
  • Very popular with urban gangs and drug dealers of the era.†   (source)
  • Coming from the village, he had no immunity to this urban disease.†   (source)
  • Several villages dotted the riverbank, maybe for those who preferred their warfare urban.†   (source)
  • Nobody's used conspiracy to slaughter since the Urban Wars, Dallas.†   (source)
  • Those Urban Renewal Ghosts gave us moving money.†   (source)
  • As Pentecostalism has grown in urban America, so has this church.†   (source)
  • Those features, and many subtler ones, are the speech of the urban ghettos.†   (source)
  • "It's called urban warfare," he replied.†   (source)
  • Clearly, modesty wasn't enough for the aggressive urban press.†   (source)
  • Meatpacking plants were much more likely to be found in urban areas.†   (source)
  • It's urban and threadbare and a little grimy.†   (source)
  • Rural Texans may still say tin cints, but not urban Texans.†   (source)
  • And urban renewal must have given you something.†   (source)
  • Chiniqua's urban upbringing, Cedric knows, was something of a departure from his.†   (source)
  • The highest-paid and the most prosperous section of urban African life is in Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • It had taken on a soft nether light under the orange spots, the boatman leaning with eternal indolence against his tiller while the sunset blazed around him and the buildings conspired together over urban waters.†   (source)
  • "The program encourages the minority doctors we train to return to urban communities to work," she told George.†   (source)
  • Though some thought it a masterpiece, Pope Urban VIII had rejected The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as too sexually explicit for the Vatican.†   (source)
  • "You're missing out, Theo," said Susanna my counselor (first names only: all pals), "extracurricular activities are what anchor our students in an urban campus.†   (source)
  • Tall buildings from the phallic-symbol era of urban architecture rose from the swamps and lagoons of the North American littoral.†   (source)
  • The Chamber of Commerce hired an outside team of urban consultants to study Savannah's economic and social problems.†   (source)
  • Those twenty—my parents, siblings and spouses, close friends, Coach Urban Meyer and Coach Mickey Marotti from the University of Florida—had been on hand to support me throughout the entire season, as always, in good times and bad.†   (source)
  • The individual in modern urban society had become 'the public,' he said, and the predominant characteristic of the crowd, or the masses, was all their noncommittal 'talk.'†   (source)
  • Amid the strip malls, office complexes, fast food joints, and sprawling parking lots of modern-day Atlanta, the sight of lumbering freight cars contributes to a comforting sense that Clarkston has not been entirely swallowed by the creeping sameness of urban sprawl.†   (source)
  • Urban exploring.†   (source)
  • At the same time, the most stalwart workers in the urban centers were wearying under the burden of the continuous workweek; artists faced tighter constraints on what they could or could not imagine; churches were shuttered, repurposed, or razed; and when revolutionary hero Sergei Kirov was assassinated, the nation was purged of an array of politically unreliable elements.†   (source)
  • The young, photogenic Yale-, Oxford-, and Harvard-educated lawyer had learned just how confounding the problems of urban America were.†   (source)
  • Knowing that Hurt Village was soon to be torn down, and replaced with some other social experiment, a group of social scientists from the University of Memphis, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, began to collect data on the place.†   (source)
  • And while Havelock (the North Carolina city closest to my Marine Corps base) was not too different from Middletown, Columbus felt like an urban paradise.†   (source)
  • In Mitchell's famed discoveries for The New Yorker magazine, Joe Gould, aka Jonathan Sea Gull, was a Bowery bohemian, urban philosopher, historian and unpublished writer twenty-six years into An Oral History of Our Time, a tattered manuscript he carried around while talking to pigeons and otherwise annoying those who dismissed him as a bum and a loon, in part for his occasional impersonation of a sea gull.†   (source)
  • Urban legends.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: In the later years of the Cultural Revolution, privileged, educated urban youths were sent down to the poor, mountainous countryside to live with and learn from the farmers there.†   (source)
  • According to the learned Charles Lindhorn, a professor of anthropology at Boston University, homicide rates among the Pashtun tribes are way lower than homicide rates in urban areas of the United States.†   (source)
  • I asked them to consider the coincidence of Nick's thirtieth birthday; the meaning of the sentence "Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade" might give our class as much trouble as the meaning of "an urban distaste for the concrete."†   (source)
  • "M. Silenus has committed the ultimate act of non-communication," wrote Urban Kapry in the TC'v Review, "by indulging himself in an orgy of pretentious obfuscation."†   (source)
  • Jane Addams, the urban reformer who founded Chicago's Hull House, wrote, "Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs."†   (source)
  • At this point in my experiment in bi-urban living, I found myself spending more time in Savannah than New York.†   (source)
  • What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country.†   (source)
  • Halliday's Easter egg gradually moved into the realm of urban legend, and the ever-dwindling tribe of gunters gradually became the object of ridicule.†   (source)
  • and the consultant chimed in with her helpful exegesis: urban geometrics ...romantic florals ...timeless elegance ...flamboyant flash ...and even though I'd kept saying sure, that one's fine, that one too, I'd be happy with either, your decision Kits, the consultant kept showing us more and more settings, clearly hoping to wheedle some firmer show of preference from me, gently explaining to me the fin†   (source)
  • At the corner of Ninth and Fourteenth, right outside the Apple Store, was an urban park I'd often visited to enjoy a coffee, to watch the hustle and bustle of people coming in and out of Chelsea.†   (source)
  • It is that dine in the spring term when the minds of the Grade 13 girls are elsewhere, and I reminded them that—yesterday—we had not traveled sufficiently far in our perusal of Chapter Three of The Great Gatsby; that the class had bogged down in a mire of interpretations regarding the "quality of eternal reassurance" in Gatsby's smile; and that we'd wasted more valuable time trying to grasp the meaning of Jordan Baker exhibiting "an urban distaste for the concrete."†   (source)
  • As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: "It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers 'out of place' in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites.†   (source)
  • As if in a trance, I slid through this landscape of urban decay, watching people, their faces, inspecting their bags, fascinated with the things they'd decided to carry: a chair here, a bag of books there.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, she was one of those New Yorkers who thought she would "die" if she spent a minute outside New York— who was sure that the rest of the world was a provincial whipping post whereat people like herself, of sophisticated tastes and highly urban energies, would be lashed to the stake of old-fashioned values and virtues until she expired of boredom.†   (source)
  • Even the ambient morning sounds in the hallway had taken on the atmosphere and color of her presence; for if I listened hard, in my half-dreaming state, it seemed that I could hear the specific light, cheerful sound of her footsteps mixed up with the clank of the room service trays up and down the hall and the rattle of elevator cables, the opening and closing of elevator doors: a very urban sound, a sound I associated with Sutton Place, and her.†   (source)
  • But after the oil crash and the onset of the energy crisis, large cities had been flooded with refugees from surrounding suburban and rural areas, resulting in a massive urban housing shortage.†   (source)
  • There was an occasional produce stand by the side of the road and a few cottages set into the foliage, but nothing resembling urban sprawl.†   (source)
  • Lynn's claim that Asians have higher IQs has been refuted, convincingly, by a number of other experts, who showed that he based his argument on IQ samples drawn disproportionately from urban, upper-income homes.†   (source)
  • I suggested more training about urban overwatches and creating hides in buildings, things I'd learned more or less as I went.†   (source)
  • They rejected urban renewal three times because they thought it was a communist plot, and they defeated any number of proposals for historic-zoning ordinances.†   (source)
  • Savannah spurned all suitors—urban developers with grandiose plans and individuals (the "Gucci carpetbaggers," as Mary Harty called them) who moved to Savannah and immediately began suggesting ways of improving the place.†   (source)
  • The sunlight crowd were mostly tourists or the harried urban professionals who didn't much care if the decor looked tawdry and the service was surly.†   (source)
  • He'd visited haunted houses, searched for mystical creatures, and hunted for the origins of urban legends.†   (source)
  • And their mother had taken her and Oz to all the boroughs of the city, gradually immersing them in various economic and social levels of urban civilization, for Amanda Cardinal was a very well-educated woman intensely curious about such things.†   (source)
  • Let's go on an urban Easter egg hunt.†   (source)
  • The Daimler limousine crawled through the congested street in Mongkok, an urban mass that had the unenviable distinction of being the most densely populated city district in the history of mankind.†   (source)
  • There they would either exhibit perfection in or fail out of courses in combat pistol and rifle marksmanship, close quarters battle, military free-fall parachute operations, land warfare, urban warfare, desert warfare, maritime Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) tactics, tactical ground mobility operations, protective security detail training, and various other, classified, classes.†   (source)
  • In his book about Burundi, Uvin describes what he calls "the micro-politics" of the country's long war, not just the competition for power among national elites, but the facts of life in urban neighborhoods and on rural hills.†   (source)
  • Arid ravines led down into the undeveloped land above Griffith Observatory and east of the Los Angeles Zoo, a rattlesnake-infested plot of desert scrub in the heart of the urban sprawl.†   (source)
  • With several days of rest and feeling more positive about urban America, I was ready to leave the neat suburb of Mountain Brook, just outside Birmingham, where I had been invited to spend some time in the home of Roger and Pat McGuire.†   (source)
  • I rented an apartment in midtown and became an urban Southerner, again, because Atlanta has Los Angeles-class traffic and I am not going to waste big chunks of my life trying to get home to a house I would rarely see.†   (source)
  • In that case, they used the fact that they were a downtrodden culture as an excuse, but I'm coming to the conclusion, based on the way that they treat the Horvath, that it's some sort of automatic submission in contemporary urban liberal culture.†   (source)
  • All of the landing zones were either too close to urban areas or we'd have to walk down city streets.†   (source)
  • I would rather visit an emergency ward, some urban well of trembling, where people come in gut-shot, slashed, sleepy-eyed with opium compounds, broken needles in their arms.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you're upset because he won't have the opportunity to woo you with his astonishing knowledge of urban street racing.†   (source)
  • They had moved far afield of the subject when a maid interrupted them to hand Fermina Daza a letter that had just arrived by special urban mail, a recent creation that used the same method of distribution as telegrams.†   (source)
  • The junta had focused most of its terror on the urban slums, because some of Aristide's most ardent support was concentrated in them, and the slums were also at the center of Haiti's AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • They seemed the embodiment of the kind of young thug feared by nearly all urban-dwellers, and the mysterious gunman who shot them down seemed like an avenging angel.†   (source)
  • The car was painted rose and mauve and the side windows were protected by iron grillwork—guy's got an urban sense of humor.†   (source)
  • But they were both really good at urban, although that's not surprising, considering where we're from.†   (source)
  • This was street-level urban politics, conducted house by house, block by block, the work sweaty and inglorious.†   (source)
  • The blazing coloured lights, the dancing, flickering, shimmering lights, were the walls of this congested, urban valley of humanity where seekers sought and sellers shrieked for attention.†   (source)
  • In fact, there is basically a revolving door between our urban and rural ghettos and the formal ghetto of our prison system.†   (source)
  • Throughout the United States, those who controlled urban centers (business people, politicians, church leaders, and educators) tended to lump poverty, crime, and chaos together.†   (source)
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