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He moved to Stockholm to become independent, and worked in various odd jobs, such as street cleaner, grocer, factory worker and butcher's assistant.
*" I would rather Summerhill produced a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.
This job title was used to describe someone who cleans the streets, removes refuse, generally a workman ( a modern-day garbage collector, janitor, or street cleaner ) employed by the local public health authority.
Although reported as having been thrown from a building, the bomb had actually been hidden in a rubbish cart, pushed into position by a Partisan disguised as a street cleaner, while others acted as lookouts.
A street sweeper or street cleaner may refer to either a person's occupation, or a machine that cleans streets.
Other targets included a street cleaner who was forced to move his wheelbarrow of equipment away from double-yellow lines, a bus which Joly attempted to ticket for illegal parking when it is at a bus stop and a taxi, which he himself hailed to a stop.
And while 35th NE doesn't rise to the level of having " street life ", it does have a good smattering of businesses, including numerous banks, a U. S. Post Office, coffee shops, restaurants, several popular bars, a dance school, a dry cleaner, the Seattle branch of the Audubon Society, miscellaneous medical offices, and a variety of retail stores, mostly independent.
The study of palla has led many to suggest that the first tennis courts were made by those who wanted to play the street game, but could afford a more private and much cleaner setting.
During the shootout an eight year old girl and a street cleaner are wounded.
Miles Woods was an epileptic who worked as a street cleaner and caretaker.
While studying, Tariko had had a part-time job as a street cleaner.

street and had
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
As luck had it, he had not gone twenty feet in the street before Pat appeared.
The law-abiding citizens of Petrie had gathered inside Kaster's Store, halfway down the street.
But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.
These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
She had the hips of a boy and a loose-jointed walk that reminded me of a string of beads strolling down the street.
Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.
The apartment where we were talking that afternoon in March faced onto the street Garibaldi's men had charged up and along.
Looking down the street after her, Adam saw that she had again stopped and again removed one hand from the basket.
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked up the cash box, he moved up the darkening street.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??
He had just returned my change when the doorman came in off the street to page me.
How was he to suspect that an assassin had been lurking somewhere across the street waiting for just such a chance??
A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.
It was enough for people to know that at one time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed -- watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance, as thin as the seams on her stockings, and still thinner.
The Old Man's very soul could have left him and flown down that street, but he wouldn't have had anyone know it.
Only one house on the street had no lawn before it.
He had put on the gray jacket and the dark-gray slacks and the fawn-colored shirt he had worn that first night in Rome when he had encountered her on the street.

street and yet
When Russell Simmons saw Jay's flashy, yet street b-boy style, he insisted the entire group follow suit.
Later pub meetings were at The Lamb and Flag across the street, and in earlier years the Inklings also met irregularly in yet other pubs, but The Eagle and Child is the best known.
In the spring of 1959, Lee got into yet another street fight and the police were called.
There are 7 billion people in the world, and yet we don't see reports of people bursting into flame while walking down the street, attending football games, or sipping a coffee at a local Starbucks.
* Green Necklace-The vibrant street setting of Dodger Way links to a beautiful perimeter around Dodger Stadium, enabling fans to walk around the park, outdoors yet inside the stadium gates.
This gives Trimont the unique characteristic of two separate Main Street business districts which are on the same street, yet placed about a half-mile apart.
The Miami New Times described Raekwon's music as being " street epics " that are " straightforward yet linguistically rich universes not unlike a gangsta Iliad.
There's this idea that hip-hop has to have street credibility, yet the first big hip-hop song was an inauthentic fabrication.
As the Independence struggle was gathering steam playwrights broaching issues of nationalism and subversive ideas against the British, yet to dodge censorship they adapted themes from mythology, history and legend and used them as vehicle for political messages, a trend that continues to date, though now it was employed to bring out social, personal and psychological issues rather than clearly political, though street theatre broke this trend in coming decades in post-independence era, like IPTA-inspired, Naya Theatre of Habib Tanvir did in 1950s-90s, Jana Natya Manch of Safdar Hashmi did in 1970s-80s.
The street has now been redeveloped, but has not yet regained its former degree of popularity, with a Gala Bingo and a J D Wetherspoon's taking up much of one side of the street and the rest largely occupied by chain stores.
His street layout and grid plan were optimized to accommodate pedestrians, carriages, horse-drawn trams, urban railway lines ( as yet unheard-of ), gas supply and large-capacity sewers to prevent frequent floods, without neglecting public and private gardens and other key amenities.
This is yet another reason Garou often avoid cities ; cities not only offer more provocation to frenzy ( claustrophobia, surprise, street crime, frustration, etc.
Between the influence of Laswell and Buckethead, Praxis ' musical experimentation in both studio, street and live settings have combined elements of mid-70 ’ s Funkadelic & Miles Davis, hip-hop ’ s more avant-garde leanings, and Last Exit's ferocious yet organic jazz / metal aesthetic.
Woodward, however, has stated that in the early 1970s the interior courtyard was an alleyway and had not yet been bricked off, and that his balcony was visible from street level to passing pedestrians.
Looking at the profile of most street cars, the front bumper has the lowest ground clearance followed by the section between the front and rear tires, and followed yet by a rear bumper usually with the highest clearance.
Subsequently, yet prior to the street being given its current name in the 18th century, the road was known as Drumcondra Lane and was shown on maps as such.
Many of Gaultier's following collections have been based on street wear, focusing on popular culture, whereas others, particularly his Haute Couture collections, are very formal yet at the same time unusual and playful.
By 1994, the resources of the government began to win out over the protesters, and only one small street, Claremont Road, was yet to be evicted.
A local arts group, the Pomegranate Center, has facilitated an effort to use public art, infrastructure changes and street furniture to slow traffic on Rainier Avenue and better connect Columbia City with the Hillman City neighborhood to the south, which has not yet seen the same level of reinvestment and renewal.
The simplest explanation for the absence of any street scenes in this drawing is that the Academy had not yet obtained the land on which the scenery would later be built.
Postman gives a striking example: The first fifteen U. S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words.
* Bar or crowded urban setting: Here, space is a premium, yet the cars on the street may have a huge bearing on the clientele inside.
The first was " Primetime and 21st ," a mock street corner where Sanders ( not yet a regular panelist ) would give his opinions.

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