Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write their names upside down on the application forms. Others enter the lottery office only by exits and leave through entrances. Scores wait under the lottery-office clock until the hour strikes before buying a ticket. One regular buyer steadfastly refuses to enter the lottery office until the nearby traffic lights turn green. Australian clergymen who deplore gambling as a "national malady" wage a losing war against the state lotteries; the Roman Catholic Church runs its own lotteries...
Sullivan indicated that he favors no new traffic laws, but rather strict enforcement of the present regulations, which do authorize towing-away of any car which is a hazard or obstruction to traffic...
Thus reminded, Murtagh asked Saul J. Allen, director of the city's Traffic Summons Control Bureau, just how Big Joe was doing. In reply, Allen produced Exhibit A, a series of postcards from Big Joe, all addressed to "Dear Saul." They read: ¶ "December 12. I'm here in Kansas City, Mo. No gypsies here." ¶ "December 15. Omaha. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Not many gypsies here. Leaving for South. Perhaps do better there...
...clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...Traffic rolls in constant cacophony through gullylike streets between stolid Victorian houses of commerce. In the great harbor, junks with patched sails pick their way among British and U.S. warships, freighters and tankers of a score or more of flags. From the Peak, the British name for the range of hills on Hong Kong Island, houses of the rich and the merely prosperous give grace to a prospect that leads many a world traveler to argue that Hong Kong surpasses Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or San Francisco as the world's most beautiful seaport. Beneath the Peak stand perhaps...