Word: thruway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pickets marched at both locations, carrying signs reading "Cars or People," "Save the Charles for Our Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...
...York Thruway 1.40 Good...
...Harvard Debate Council returned to Cambridge by plane Saturday night after a disastrous week's trip to Northwestern University. During the week they lost not only the tournament but the Debate Council's ramshackle 1959 Volkswagen bus, which was destroyed in a crack-up on the New York Thruway early Wednesday morning...
...just why the grand jury wanted to question him. In any event, he too refused to waive his immunity. Shortly before that, he resigned not only from his Republican Party post but from his state jobs as $17,000-a-year vice chairman of the New York State Thruway Authority and un-salaried chairman of the Lake George Parkway Commission...
...drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours. A man who does not feel the need of sleep or coffee breaks can drive from Boston to Chicago in less than 24 hours without hitting a traffic light (1,141 miles on the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York State Thruway, Garden State Parkway, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes, Indiana Toll Road, Calumet Skyway...