Word: crowdedness
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With good reason. It was the third time in eight days that whites had been victims of racially motivated violence. Two days before, an unidentified non-white youth threw a hand grenade under a van parked on a crowded Durban street, injuring eight whites. On Dec. 15, six whites were...
Art Buchwald is the nation's most popular political humorist because he is not too funny. Readers of his syndicated columns never have to worry about the embarrassment of laughing out loud in packed trains or at crowded lunch counters. In addition, Buchwald's wit is a comfort, not a...
Although inmates of West Virginia's state penitentiary in Moundsville had chafed for years under crowded and restrictive conditions, they were particularly galled at the cancellation of a traditional holiday reception for their relatives. On New Year's Day, the resentment boiled over. Some 200 of the 700 inmates seized...
Air travel, once an expensive way to go, is now discounted almost as fiercely as videocassette recorders and used cars. A new fleet of cut-rate carriers, launched over the past seven years by a wave of airline deregulation, has entered the big time by offering startlingly cheap fares from...
Gross overbooking produced a nightmare at Newark's North Terminal on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, People's busiest day of the year. The cramped building was so crowded that human gridlock developed. Hundreds of people never made it onto a plane and spent the night at the airport. On Dec...