Word: blinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Road is a reminder th.it prodigal sons rarely change their spots. It takes Pa Ederly a minute to recognize the jazzy-looking lad who has walked into his general store. Then his eyes blink back the tears. "Well, I-I see you've grown some. But then, you do grow some between 15 and 23." Before the day is out, Prodigal Son Davie is acting like a new broom, ordering the store front painted bright red, plate glass for the big window, the latest finery for his mother...
...physical Yale is plunked incongruously down in the heart of a prosaic, overgrown town-a neo-Gothic citadel besieged by a grid of Main Streets. Neon signs blink into its leaded windows; drugstores, shoe stores and tailor shops challenge its ivy-covered walls. The worlds of Samuel and Howard Johnson are but a step apart...
...group had already done some emergency work during floods, fires, and storms. When the telephone system in Vermont went on the blink this fall, a group of "ham" stations, including W1AF, relayed outgoing messages from the area...
...lights are operated by push buttons, and replace the old green blinking lights with red and yellow walking lights. 'Cliffedwellers will not be able to halt traffic indefinitely, however. The lights must blink green at least 37 seconds in, every minute...
...Dunster and Leverett petitions offer a bright but illegal solution in their overhead traffic light suggestion. Actually, a standard post light would have legal blessing and also be easier to see. For clear warning, it should blink red down DeWolfe Street and yellow in both directions on Memorial Drive. It is hard to set a monetary value on a human life, but a five hundred dollar traffic light seems cheap enough insurance...