Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zodiak commando boats, loaded down with Kalashnikov rifles, RPG light montars and high explosives. In late afternoon they beached near a kibbutz called Ma'agan Mikha'el, then walked less than a mile up to the four-lane highway. After opening fire at passing traffic, they hijacked a white Mercedes taxi, killing its occupants. Setting off down the highway toward Tel Aviv, they met a bus on its way to Haifa. They fired at the bus, wounding its driver and some passengers and forcing it to a stop. One of the passengers on the bus was Avraham Shamir...
Cambridge resident groups and many businessmen still favor the runner-up proposal of the Cambridge Carbarn Company, which includes only one-fifth the retail space the Carpenter plan envisions. Residents contacted last week said they fear that the Carpenter plan would generate a marked increase in traffic around the area...
...took me some time to realize I was standing on the main street, a place of vindictive traffic where vengeful folks sit inside their cars and hiss at pedestrians in great ire. Today there were smiling people on the road wishing each other well...
...walking with close friends, but whose names I intended to find out at the end of our journey, when I arrived at Harvard Square. It is a place usually busy with vicious traffic to the left of you, to the right of you, in front of you and behind you--but today it was joyously empty except for the same sort of grinning happy folks and delirious children. Suddenly the landscape had been humanized...
...stood precisely at a point where all traffic meets, and stood there enjoying the quiet. But that was my only opportunity to stand there. Suddenly, as if to remind me of what was in store, a car came sailing on the snow and the driver asked that I move to the side...