Word: highway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Greece years ago: "If someone wants to eat with you, sit down and eat with them. But if someone wants to fight with you, move away." But Nick didn't dare move. He sat paralyzed with fear. Only when the train slowed for his stop at Kings Highway station did he get up. And then, before the car doors opened, the gang began beating him, knocking off and splintering his glasses. They finally left him on the station platform with his wallet, containing $97, missing, his trousers nearly ripped off, his shirt covered with blood, his face a pulpy...
Nightmarish though it was, the experience of Nick Philippides and How ard Weiner took on its real significance as part of a bigger pattern-a wave of terrorism on the trains. Within 96 hours of the Kings Highway station outbreak, these incidents also took place...
...auto has not eliminated the ancient right. We think that the villagers have shown that the periodic bovine excursions and their lingering residue occasion some inconvenience and annoyance to them. But the obstruction of traffic for a few minutes, the presence of manure on the highway and the occasional tracking of it into buildings are not inconveniences serious enough in a rural community to call for the restraining power of a court...
...another occasion, Bernays brought architect Peter Blake, the author of God's Own Junkyard, to Cambridge to oppose the underpasses and explain the technical side of highway and city planning...
Although most serious debate has centered on the destruction of open green space, and on city and highway planning, opponents have used a catch phrase--"SAVE THE SYCAMORES"--to gain support...