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Word: traffice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canal Traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...shakes with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention-but he grabs for the next hand in line. The resulting traffic pile-up generally gets rid of the talker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Professional Common Man | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...guide a ship through the Suez. For the one thing Colonel Nasser cannot do without, if he is to run the canal successfully, is pilots. Any day now all but a handful of the pilots needed to keep boats moving may leave their jobs. If they do, and traffic piles up, a new and crucial phase of the Suez crisis may be at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men at the Helm | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...slave market of the Holy City. Most have to be ferried into Arabia across the Red Sea or Persian Gulf. If the British Navy, under the proposed "piracy" clause, resumed its vigorous, pre-World War I slave patrol in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, this lucrative traffic would be severely hampered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: Of Human Bondage | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Lead Me Not. In Providence, Philip L. Billings asked directions of fellow Motorist Kenneth R. Pelkey, was told "follow me" and did, ended up with Pelkey in traffic court, where both were fined $15 for speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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