Word: fender
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riverside Ave."--popularly known as "Fender Alley"--will be grassed over as soon as the title to the land can be cleared up and the Leverett Courtyard extended to the sidewalk," he added. The purpose of closing Riverside Ave.--which is presently blocked off by a series of posts--is to have an attractive approach to the Leverett Dining Hall from Leverett Towers, he continued...
...were showing off their new cars. With the endlessly burgeoning number of models, they were having increasing trouble making the cars look different. The new Fords have a rear-end grill decoration reminiscent of the 1960 Cadillacs. Some of the cars in the General Motors family have a front-fender line and a rear-window slope that resembles this year's Fords. Dodge's new compact, the Lancer, borrowed the 1960 Pontiac grill; the rest of the car is almost identical with the Chrysler Valiant...
Whitlock cited three main reasons for the change. Closing the streets would eliminate a great fire hazard, he claimed, since parked automobiles frequently block the pasage of fire trucks. Undergraduate parking outside official lots would be curtailed, while the eyesore of "Fender Alley"--Riverview Avenue--would also be eliminated...
...Fender Sir: Regarding your May 30 picture of Attorney Tom Corcoran, I wish to call attention to the curious caption, "With the brass behind." Did Lawyer Corcoran develop his "brass behind" to fend off anti-Roosevelt Republicans, or what? No doubt, a guard against terrible chewings...
...seagoing vessels had such high wind-catching bows and their crews were so inexperienced in the narrow locks and channels that there were 76 accidents along the 27½ mile Welland Canal between Lakes Ontario and Erie. The authority spent $7,500,000 on new mooring walls and fender booms for the Welland, ordered all ships to carry special landing booms, stern anchors and winches. The equipment is sure to help, but last week, as the first ships entered the seaway, the air was filled with the familiar crunch of bent bows and scraped bottoms...