Word: pedestrianized
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...translating. He says he did not ask himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...
...speaking campaign for Roosevelt and Truman (see U.S. AT WAR), did some running himself. His two-man police escort left him in their car for a few minutes, returned to find him gone. They spotted him running down the street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained Wallace: "I just had to get some exercise...
...Prime Minister was half through his pedestrian, almost defensive report to Britain and the U.S. last week. Suddenly, into an uninspired voice, crept the thrust and crackle of the fighting Churchill. In one by-election after another, ungrateful Britons had turned down Churchill candidates, criticized Churchill politics. He was angry. His anger burst, red-hot, out of thousands of British and U.S. loudspeakers...
Freed of traffic lights (except at pedestrian crossings), the ring streets would supposedly allow a smooth flow of traffic. The block plan would place all residents within easy walking distance of schools, shops, etc. Herrey proposes a new type of apartment house, with a terrace and garden for each apartment...
Malaria and shock from Guadalcanal, where he won Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift's citation of "an ideal Marine," dictated Lou Diamond's more pedestrian assignment...