Word: clog
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is difficult on the highways is nearly impossible in such cities as Paris. During rush hours, traffic is even slower than it was in the days of horse-drawn carriages. As monstrous jams clog the boulevards and bridges, cars and their drivers overheat, radiators and tempers boil over. The great rectangle of the Place de la Concorde has space for about 1,000 parked cars and 400 moving ones; yet a daily average of 120,000 cars must struggle through...
...rise in Europe with a minimum of traffic tie-ups and almost no noise, in pleasant contrast to the bedlam at most building sites in the U.S. Main reason for the difference is the kind of crane builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from the center...
Auto carburetors clog, typewriters stick and doors jam; airplanes no longer land at the local airport. Slowly the city's drainage system is plugging up-and so much ash has settled in the Reventado River that a recent rainstorm sent waters spilling over the banks, destroying some 500 homes in the city of Cartago...
...nations receiving help under the U.S. foreign aid program, none is so exasperating as Indonesia. Despite $881 million in U.S. handouts since 1946, Indonesia is an economic shambles. Factories lie idle for lack of spare parts, roads go unrepaired, and harbors clog with silt. "In Indonesia," the saying goes, "chaos is organized." Only Communist-coddling President Sukarno's 400,000-man military force seems to thrive...
Dark Suits & Mantillas. By 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, tour buses from all over Europe had begun to jockey for parking spaces next to the majestic curve of the Bernini colonnade that guards St. Peter's Basilica. Cars and taxis began to clog the narrow streets near the Vatican. Out of them stepped bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians. About half the pilgrims were Italian, many of them attired as for a picnic. But there were plenty of men dressed in their darkest business suits, and women in discreet blacks, lacy mantillas tossed over elaborate coiffures...