Word: overpass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro has fled to the Dominican Republic to plot Scott's overthrow with Batista. "Overthrow, overpass--I'll give 'em free transportation to my island paradise if they feel they got the divisions. Man, I don't want this damn place, I just want to beautify it. I feel that this is the Canadian's burden," he observed...
...whether, as a result of these harsh moves, the unrest would spread. But the workers were unorganized and without strike funds. On the fourth day the shipyard posted a notice: "As of today, job applications will be considered." Berets in hand, the Basques meekly filed over the long concrete overpass that carried them from their grimy slum homes across the railroad tracks and into the shipyard again. Without yielding an inch, Franco had won, at least for now-even though the inflation, the poverty and the discontent were still there...
Rain on the Roof. In Fresno, Calif., three boys hurled stones at the Fresno Hacienda Motel from a highway overpass, were swiftly taken into custody by members of the State Juvenile Officers Association attending a convention in the motel...
...weeks earlier, on Dec. 21, North and Boyden were killed instantly near Goshen, Ind., when the car in which they were riding collided unavoidably with two trucks on the brow of a New York Central overpass. John Fell Stevenson '58, of Leverett House and Libertyville, III., driver of the car, suffered severe face cuts and a broken right kneecap. Doctors said yesterday at Chicago's Passavant Hospital, where Stevenson is confined in a wheelchair, that his progress was "fine." His return to Cambridge is as yet indefinite...
...Guglielmo, would solve this by making the Yard into a traffic circle. He would divert all Arlington-bound traffic through Quincy street, thereby reversing its present direction and make Massachusetts Ave. one way Bostonward. Morton suggests that this plan would also require building an unsightly overpass for freshmen on their way to Union meals, since they might have trouble battling the madding crowd of mechanized citizens on the ground level...