Word: pedestrianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became the first big city of the automobile age. Its citizens worship the fishtail Cadillac, use their cars for almost all transportation (there is one car for every 2.6 persons-the nation's highest average), drive up to traffic lights like ballplayers sliding into second, and regard the pedestrian with suspicion and distrust...
Stanley Reed, Kentucky-born, onetime Solicitor General, once a practical dirt fanner, writer of pedestrian opinions, rated as an able lawyer...
...water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward its blaze without even slowing down, enraged police and soldiers raced ridiculously after it on foot, brandishing rifles...
Four inches worth of snow should come as a midget challenge to the maintenance departments of the University and the City of Cambridge charged with the task of keeping highways and byways clear for the pedestrian. But, with the annual reliability of the stadium ticket crisis and the Dean's Christmas-present reminder that New Year's Day ends vacationing, the snow and slush flasco has once again come upon the Square...
Merely Bored. In Pralognan, France, police jailed Léopold Dupont, who had taken careful aim with his carbine, scored a bull's-eye on a passing pedestrian's wooden...