Word: towing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Police Department will tow away all student-owned cars blocking snow removal operations, Police Chief Patrick F. Ready warned yesterday. "If they don't cooperate, we'll tow every car on the streets away," he said...
...police chief pointed out that under a state law, the Commissioner of Public Works could order the towing. The approval has already been given. "If cars are damaged by the tow-trucks, the city is not responsible," Ready stated...
Lieutenant J. Harry McCaffrey of the Cambridge Police called the blizzard "the worst we can remember." Fifteen tow-trucks which had been continuously at work since 6 p.m. could not cope with all the cars that broke down on streets...
...himself elected to the City Council with enormous majorities and kept himself there until his death in 1949 by suing the Lampoon, threatening to change the name of Harvard Square, and decrying "the Godless communism raging within the ivy-covered walls." Eddie still rallies the voters under the "tow-away-student-cars" banner occasionally, but is quite happy to leave the Square nominally intact...
...shopping expedition in Windsor, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 7, along with five-year-old Princess Anne, in the tow of a royal nanny, rummaged about a gift shop "to buy a secret Christmas present for Mummy." His gift for Queen Elizabeth II: a miniature watercolor of Mummy herself, caparisoned in the full-dress uniform of a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, sitting sidesaddle on a chestnut horse named Winston. Among the little Princess' selections: a watercolor showing her namesake, Queen Anne, attending the Ascot Races some 250 years...