Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the Queen's tabarded heralds, riding in their royal coach, made their way through London's traffic-heavy streets from St. James's Palace, to Charing Cross, to Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange, to proclaim, with a fanfare of trumpets, what all her loyal subjects have long known but like to be formally told: Elizabeth will be crowned Queen in Westminster Abbey come June...
...Jersey Turnpike (TIME, Aug. 27). With both of these, after a 35-mile Philadelphia bypass links them, the Ohio Turnpike will provide a super-highway route (see map) enabling motorists to drive all the way from Hartford, Conn, to Indiana, at high speeds, with few toll stops and no traffic lights. When additional New England toll roads are completed interlinked highways will reach from Portland, Me. to Chesapeake Bay and Washington...
...fell to work digging trenches, rearing up piles of dirt and felling trees to seal off the roads leading out of the city. Soviet guards barred U.S. and British military police patrols from the highways connecting isolated West Berlin and West Germany-but did not stop the vital supply traffic itself on the Autobahn. "On June 1," came an official East German announcement, "travel in the German Democratic [i.e., Communist] Republic will be permitted only to those who have personal identification issued by the German Democratic Republic...
...Guaranty. These signs were ominous enough, but for all of their menacing gestures the Russians stopped just short of the real provocation: shutting off all traffic to the 2,000,000 West Berliners, who occupy an island of freedom 100 miles beyond the Western frontier. Perhaps, by a sort of creeping blockade, they hoped to choke off Berlin inch by inch, in such a way that the West would have a hard time finding the crucial point to make a stand. At any rate, beneath the bluster, there was a canny control at work too-as if the Russians hoped...
Incorruptible. In Chicago, bracing himself for this summer's national political conventions, Traffic Police Chief Michael Ahern advised his 1,100 cops to avoid calling delegates "Bud" or "Chum...