Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night a howling mob of 1,000 whites, inflamed by a self-appointed foe of integration from Washington, D.C. named John Kasper, banged and battered the cars of Negroes passing through, blocked traffic, swamped and demoralized the local police. Next night the showdown came. Forty citizens of Clinton were sworn in to help the eight Clinton cops in a vigilante "peace guard." They armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander...
...guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau...
Superficially the odds favored Nasser. The Suez Canal was his to have and hold, and any challenger would have to wrest it from him. But Menzies too had sources of strength. His five-nation committee represented 18 nations who between them account for 95% of the Suez Canal traffic. And he had pressures to bring to bear which might make even an impetuous strongman hesitate...
...operation of the canal," said Dulles, "then I think the matter should be soluble." No one suggested that New York City was "internationalized" because the U.N. was established there, said Dulles, but neither would the U.S. want to mess around with the practical business of maintaining, policing and regulating traffic in Dag Hammarskjold's headquarters...
Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...