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Word: traffice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico had influenced weather patterns across the country. Said he: "If you set up a road block on a busy highway and stop all cars for ten minutes, let them through for ten minutes, and then stop them again for ten minutes, you will have influenced the flow of traffic for hundreds of miles in either direction from the road block. That's what we did with the weather for 21 months." Furthermore, said he: "There can no longer be any valid doubt as to the success of cloud seeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Personal Preferences | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...Beguine, well sung by the show's topranker, Alice Ghostley, should mingle Harvard and Haiti more hilariously. The show is funniest where the spoofing is broadest: Paul Lynde as a battered African explorer turned lecturer; and "After Canasta-What?" daffily prophesying a card game requiring adding machines and traffic lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...dangerous and that the rioters may have to take the consequences of their participation. If we have permission to hold a rally in the Square, that is fine; but when some of us start disconnecting trolley wires, pounding on police cars, attempting to overturn cars, and blocking traffic, we must expect the Cambridge police to attempt to disperse us before more damage is done. But how can they disperse a riot? To tell everyone to go home, or to reason with a crowd of college boys out to raise hell is futile. Possibly the only way to disperse an unruly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reader Contends Police Did Not Act Unjustly, Criticizes Crimson | 5/22/1952 | See Source »

...arrests followed a rally held for Walt Kelly, creator of the comic strip character, Pogo. Most of the students were arrested before Kelly arrived in the Square. Police issued a riot call when the crowd, which had swelled to 1500, began to slow traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot Trials Set for Friday; Students Circulate Protest | 5/19/1952 | See Source »

...rotund and genial creator of the comic strip possum had a little difficulty with traffic conditions in the Square and arrived a few minutes late for his scheduled lecture. Kelly, in fact, spent the first part of his informal talk explaining to students his impression of "the way a person in a uniform must feel when surrounded by so many people without uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 1000 Fill New Lecture Hall For Cartoonist Kelly's Pogo-Talk | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

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