Word: culdesac
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Home in the Horseshoe. Since Candlestick Park is on a peninsular sort of culdesac, many a San Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause for worry: Candlestick's 8,500-car parking lot was left 2,000 shy of capacity. Dreading to drive, hundreds of San Franciscans came by seaplanes, helicopters, sail and motor boats. It was all remarkably orderly...
Thirteen hours later, borne on stretchers, swathed in blankets, their eyes shielded to prevent permanent damage from glaring camera lights, the twelve began to emerge from their 4-ft.-high culdesac. Doctors found the men an average 10 Ibs. lighter but in surprisingly good shape. They had found enough food in their own lunch pails and in those of dead companions in the chamber for four days, enough water, when rationed from a tiny aspirin bottle, to last almost as long. Said one survivor proudly: "No man took more than his share." Toward the last they gathered their own urine...
...Today, with over 1,500,000 paid circulation in his corner, he could be forgiven for relaxing a bit. But Pratt, who is a ruddy, blue-eyed, eupeptic father of three (two boys, a girl) with an appalling propensity for work (and weekend gardening), has written himself into a culdesac...