Word: overpassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automobile and its rail-less track became an autocrat and a sacred cow; no one dared stand in its way. Family homesteads, a town's ancient elms, historic monuments were sacrificed to spare the passing motorist a few minutes' delay. Bypasses and underpasses and overpasses snaked through and around the cities. Some of the results were beautiful as well as functional; some were just functional. In Trinidad. Colo., for example, through travelers on U.S. Highway 85 used to drive down curving Commercial Street, make a right-angle turn at Main Street, then inch their way out of town...