Word: pedestrianized
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...drivers-their accent, their tea-making equipment and their reactions to the U.S.-provided the best newspaper copy. Said one, after cruising down Madison Avenue: "It's the pace you live that worries me more than the traffic. You've got no provision for the pedestrian...
...doing maliciously observant sketches of the people he saw. In a few deft strokes, a blob of black ink or a casual crosshatching, he caught the posture and movement of a speeding cyclist, a barmaid scratching her head, an old fiacre driver waiting for a fare, a bemused, potbellied pedestrian...
Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...
...photographed Washington's 16 years of peace in such overwhelming and sometimes indiscriminate detail that Vol. Ill often makes sluggish reading. But when he plunges into the war in Vol. IV, and takes Washington through the winter at Valley Forge, he writes with steam and fire. A bit pedestrian as a portraitist of character, Freeman handles military matters with rousing zest and precision...
Paris police told taxi drivers that they must all take physical exams, and the cabbies didn't like it. Last week the cabbies threatened revenge. They would drive only at legal speeds, give the crossing pedestrian a sporting chance, acknowledge the other motorists' right of way, and strictly obey every traffic law. The result, they vowed, would be the worst traffic jam Paris has ever seen...