Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless he slams on his brakes and risks a pile-up from behind, the fourth driver in the left-turn line-and sometimes the fifth and sixth-rolls through the red toward a waiting menace of another color: one of the two blue Chevrolets manned by the town's three-man police force, whose chief occupation is to collect a $15 "bond" from each driver not willing to stick around town to be tried and fined $15 for running a light...
...that rain comes often enough for the light to produce a quarter or more of the town's $12,000 to $15,000 annual budget. But local members of the Good Government League, organized by polio-crippled Mail Carrier Harry Chapman to fight the "Dawson crowd" and its red light, consider Godfrey's figures overly modest. They once counted 30 arrests in a single day, estimated the light's take at something upwards of $50,000 a year, got brushed aside when they demanded a look at town books on public revenue and outlays...
...enough to challenge the prowess of every red-blooded driver from Bognor Regis to Balquhidder when the initial 72-mile stretch of Britain's first six-lane throughway opened last week after 590 days abuilding. M1, as the government proudly labeled the London-Birmingham Motorway, is intended-when its final 45 miles are completed-to almost halve the time it now takes to crawl along a major industrial artery (average speed: 23.4 m.p.h.). But it boasts one feature guaranteed to lure speed-starved drivers from all parts of Britain. It has no speed limit...
...Chaban-Delmas, responding to advance warnings from Socialists, deftly steered the shortsighted general off in another direction. But it was an unsettling portent. Glumly, the organizers of every public affair that De Gaulle is expected to attend in the next few weeks braced themselves for a rush of unwelcome Red guests...
...Prime Minister of 'Bharat.' " The results often got ludicrous. When Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the U.S. as Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati" blanket by a Navajo girl. A translation of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony called the American Indians in the story "Pak-Bharatis," meaning the kind of people that used to inhabit India together...