Word: pedestrianized
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...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...
Besides making the trains run on time, Mussolini also made Rome's turbulent traffic run smoothly. He prohibited the Roman pedestrian's custom of reading newspapers in the middle of the street. Once, interrupted in his meditations by a horn insistently honking in the Piazza Venezia below, Mussolini shouted an order that all "acoustic signaling" be forthwith prohibited in Rome. Romans whispered sadly that their "city of noise" had become the città del silenzio...
Those teeth, of course, are museum pieces; such things don't get lost every day. But plenty of textbooks, coats, overshoes, and other pedestrian items pop up in one place or another during the year, and don't get claimed. The several depositories hold lost articles for a sufficient period of time, but that alone doesn't insure a competent lost-and-found system. The loser should have every chance to pick up his property; he can't do that unless he knows where to look...