Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proctor who escaped arrest harked back to the Humpty-Dumpty riot of 1956 and the Fight Mental Health protests of 1958: "They were different. This crew will go off on a rampage." A more internationally-minded pedestrian observed, "Algiers was never like this...
...Rome's Via Veneto, the night was gay with lights and pink azaleas in curbside tubs. At a sidewalk cafe, Ivan Kro-scenko, 31. a man in a black leather jacket, sipped espresso and cased the pedestrian traffic with a predatory eye. A bearded giant strode past: Cinemactor Steve ("Hercules") Reeves. "Mr. Universe," sneered Kroscenko softly. "So who cares?" He was after bigger game. "Linda Christian. Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg. Jayne Mansfield." he rolled the names lovingly across his tongue. "They are important people. They make trouble." Kroscenko rose, slung the strap of his Rolleicord camera over a shoulder...
...rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after the last incident, the 'raggers' excelled themselves with a trick that required no physical effort...
Your recent series of editorials on "Major problems facing the Kennedy Administration" was a)pompous, b)pedestrian, and c) unreadable. A Reader
...bitter disappointment to his father, who wanted him to take over at the factory one day and refused to take his scribbling seriously. John's early versifying was pedestrian enough. At Highgate Junior School he bound his verses into a book...