Word: plympton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually happens soon after midnight. An automobile barrels northwest on Memorial Drive, continues northwest when the road bears west, and ploughs into a tree. Or perhaps the car attempts a right turn on either Plympton or DeWolf Street, without a reduction in speed. Both turns are deceptive and sharp, and the fact that DeWolf is one way the wrong way adds to the problem...
...aside from providing sport for those who push the red-orange button, then floc, it has served only to clog traffic during rush hours. And despite the light, drivers still bear north when the road goes west, and they still under-estimate the angle of the turn into Plympton Street...
...beads, announcing that DeWolf Street is forbidden to those driving on Memorial Drive, and another sign announcing the curve west in the Drive itself. And there should be a row of posts, all equipped with those little beads, informing drivers of the dangers lurking in a fast turn onto Plympton Street...
...gunmen who were fleeing from the police Tuesday night in an 85-mile-an-hour chase suffered minor fractures when they smashed up near Plympton Street. Sigtry Ofalsson, the fisherman who fell asleep at the wheel and cracked into a tree on the same spot, died last weekend in the Cambridge City Hospital...
Since February 24 there have been four accidents at the Plympton intersection, two at the intersection of DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive, and one at Flagg Street. During the period from February 24 to March 2 alone, three accidents occurred in the area, and since the beginning of April, there have been four more...