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Word: jaywalk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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What can a man do for kicks after he gets bored with wrestling alligators? Well, he can jump off bridges or jaywalk at Indy on Memorial Day or invite a cannibal in for lunch. Or, as ex-Alligator Wrestler Odell Lewis did, he can turn to powerboat racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powerboat Racing: Fear on Suicide Circle | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...assigned to Houses, but almost all of them strike out on "substantial." A few turn their room lights off and on in unison and then rush outside making animal noises, but fail to capture the popular imagination. One day later 1000 students gather in the Square and shout "Jaywalk! Jaywalk!" They then repeatedly cross Mass on the "Walk" signal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A la Recherche de 1965-66, Part 2 | 6/15/1966 | See Source »

...plead with the good councillors to relent, to restore jaywalking to its place among the blissful adventures of college life. But if the City will not act, then the Harvard community must, with a massive campaign of civil disobedience. If the 10,000 men of Harvard are determined to jaywalk, then all the kings and powers of this earth will not stand in their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chickens Outlaw Crossing the Road | 4/18/1966 | See Source »

City Traffic Director Robert E. Rudolph said yesterday that it would be "quite hard" to do "any enforcement" until September, 1965, when a similar ordinance takes effect in Boston. He made it clear that he feared citizens would become confused and resentful if they could jaywalk in Boston but were fined for it in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City May Delay Enforcement Of Jaywalking Law | 9/29/1964 | See Source »

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