Word: pedestrianized
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...citizens now could see in shanks' mare the shape of their future. The lowly pedestrian, who had been the funny figure of a man without a car, the man always getting in the way and getting killed, was coming to mean nearly everybody...
From Batavia on the west to Surabaya on the east, Java's excellent highways were thick with armored cars, with the harnessed and ever-useful water buffalo, with pedestrian natives in economically cut trousers and casual skirts. At Bandung, the Army's mountain headquarters and fortress, patrolling aircraft droned in and away...
...shipyard worker, driving with shrouded headlights through the fog in Portland's blackout, ran down a pedestrian and killed him. A fisherman, serving as a defense guard in the town of Depoe Bay, stepped out to flag a car, was killed. Portland's City Council passed an ordinance providing fines up to $500, jail terms up to six months for blackout violations...
Tossed. In Wichita, Kans., Pedestrian John Hancock was bumped by an automobile that pitched him in front of a second car going in the opposite direction. The second tossed him in front of a third. A fourth hit him. He survived...
From the armored cars and trucks charging through the streets, the soldiers fired at every pedestrian they saw. The only resistance was offered by small boys with cap pistols...