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Word: expressway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall for the bump-and- rob ploy when the yellow Ryder truck rammed them twice from behind. Keep driving, she told him. But none of it did any good. Ever since Hurricane Andrew lumbered through the area last year and ripped all the lightposts from the Dolphin Expressway, the section of road where the Rakebrands found themselves at 12:30 a.m. has been tar black at night. And perhaps it was this inky cover that encouraged a frustrated teenager to pull out a sawed-off rifle and blast a .30-cal. slug through the window and into the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miami's Tourist Trap | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

Maybe, if you're in an adventurous mood, you'll slip off the expressway and visit hokey Midwest tourist sites like the Call of the Wild Museum or the largest free standing crucifix in North America...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ski Michigan for Short Slopes, Short Lines | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...spent more time on this inquisition than was eaten up by traffic at La Guardia. Short of couples therapy, will nothing get us out of this trough? Maybe the Washington comment is a way out, a four-lane expressway to freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katharine Hepburn: A Bad Case of HEPBURN | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

...selection as the host city will redound to its benefit. Government officials, eager to put the best face on the city for the 30,000 expected visitors, have repaved the roads, expanded the airport, built a new downtown expressway and preened the beachfront parks and promenades. Street children have been rounded up and placed in shelters, homeless migrants have been sent packing, and law enforcement has been beefed up. Officials have also started some ambitious environmental projects, chief among them the cleanup of Guanabara Bay. The project will cost $667 million, $450 million of it to be lent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio: Soiled Gem | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Andrew A. Willis, a resident of South Easton, was stopped for illegally walking along the Southeast Expressway on Friday afternoon...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Widener Vandal Arrested | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

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