Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best shows, typically, ran opposite each other. NBC's Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell...
According to Lowell police, the students, who were returning from the Dartmouth weekend in Hanover, pulled out to pass two cars at the same time on a three-lane highway by-pass skirting the city. Hird, the driver, was unable to get back in line in time to avoid colliding with the Fulton vehicle...
...Within a fortnight after his resignation as general manager of the Chicago White Sox, Frank Lane, 59, one of baseball's most astute player traders, signed a three-year contract to be general manager of August A. Busch's seventh-place St. Louis Cardinals...
Bermuda shorts and pedal pushers jauntily navigate what was once a grassy lane, called Tory Row, now Brattle Street. Tory Row in the seventeenth century was the home of many of Massachusetts' foremost leaders, members of the General Court and men of that ilk. In the eighteenth century, however, the grandsons of these leaders came to grief, for their vested interest in the Crown government estranged them from their more patriotic brothers...
Spectacular Sport. In Buffalo, when police flushed Decker Smith, 63, from his perch in a tree above the local lovers' lane early one evening and found a pair of binoculars in his pocket, he protested that he was merely making a routine check of nearby horseshoe-game scoreboards...