Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Administrative sluggishness is a common phenomenon and is most evident in various small matters, such as the placing of stop signs. Disregarding numerous requests, the City of Cambridge has left the intersections of Bow and Plympton Streets, and of Plympton and Mill Streets, unguarded, without the stop signs which would change them from possible death traps to normally safe corners...
...Plympton-Mill corner a newly-built garage has cut off the previous sight line and has made the intersection a blind corner. Winter weather may make the current near-misses into fatal crashes and Plympton Street into a death...
...city claims that it costs $30 to provide and install a stop sign. Three signs, one at Mill and two on Bow Street, would remove a significant traffic hazard. It is more charitable, if perhaps less realistic to assume, that the City of Cambridge is lazy rather than concerned about spending another $90. The City should rouse itself from a lethargy that might result in injury or death...
...mooing small endearments, the poor bull just stands there looking cowed. The third answer is very Hollywood but sort of tedious. When a nice young sailor (Stephen Boyd) kills that nasty uncle, Brigitte helps him to escape. Night falls, and they hide out in an abandoned mill, a gypsy camp, a cave. On they go, one jump ahead of the police, until the censor has had just about all he can bare...
...named Titine Dargereux ("very good to look at, and the closer she came, the more alluring"). Cajun Titine titillates Rice Prince Prosper Villac, who "had her to himself beside a bayou" in return for a pair of gold slippers. So when Titine is found suffocated in the Villac rice mill, the gold slipper that sticks above the grain points accusingly at Prosper-and just at the moment that Prosper has got engaged to rich and beautiful Victorine LaBranche. Keyes fans will not be disappointed as they follow Victorine along a mysterious, lumbering course. Though most of the prose consists...