Word: pedestrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brainard Cheney writes with the homely hardness of a grindstone. At his best he is a master at making detail, action and physical sensation palpable, and almost Homerically fresh. At his worst he is a pedestrian writer, capable of serious lapses of literary judgment, but enormously sensitive to a certain landscape and a certain people. If he ever wrestles a subject his size with grace as well as grit, he may make literary history...
...motorist, onetime King of the Highway, looked more like a funny-cartoon pedestrian each week. A great many Eastern gas tanks were dry, and hell had seen no furies like the motorists who did not have enough gas left to drive around to a service station for gas that was not there...
...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...