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Word: expressway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this morning he appeared in an embroidered white cotton shirt called a guayabera. Waving and smiling in the blazing sunshine, the candidate bounded onto an orange sightseeing bus, and the seven-vehicle motorcade lurched off toward city hall. As the procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from the open bus door to motorists and pedestrians along the way. Some waved and some yelled back, but a good many just stared, startled by this manifestation of that peculiar ritual, the American presidential campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Of Mavi and Morcillas | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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