Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people from coast to coast. Recent examples were the Minnesota and New Hampshire primaries and the death of King George VI. More frequently, however, the leading subjects of conversation are almost as numerous as the reports-ranging from a siege of virus influenza in Los Angeles to the traffic death rate in Wichita and a drive to eliminate rabid foxes in Pennsylvania. And even during those weeks that are dominated by a single subject, other topics compete for conversational honors...
...month earlier, Philadelphia and New York City were engrossed in the capture of Willie Sutton, while Seattle was deep in a controversy over fluoridation of its water supply. San Franciscans talked of little but the wildcat transit strike and the resulting traffic snarls, but a little farther south, in Los Angeles, Topic A was Governor Warren's entry into the Wisconsin primary race. In Charleston, S.C., people were indignant about judges who were resigning in order to be renamed to their posts at higher pay, while Indianapolis was swept up in the Hoosier State's annual excitement over...
...sunny street outside, Policeman Edmund Noonan was directing traffic, half a block from the bank truck. He noticed a black Buick sedan beside it and strolled down the street to call a warning against double parking. As he approached, the car started up, ripped past him, screeched around the corner and was gone. The cop took one look at the open doors of the bank truck, scribbled down the first three digits of the Buick's license-all he had been able to spot-and ran into the drugstore. The guards tumbled out: $681,000 -biggest cash haul since...
...With $444 incampus traffic fines paid by faculty members, Indiana University added a prize to its historical library: the journal kept by Chaplain A. Y. Humphreys of the U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812. Wrote the chaplain: "The last bone of fresh beef we brought out from Boston was picked by the first lieutenant at dinner today, and unless we shortly fall in with something of a prize, salt junk and biscuit must be our portion . . ." But then, "Old Ironsides" captured a British schooner and Chaplain Humphreys wrote: "A perfect slop ship and grocery store . . . bountiful cheer for Christmas...
...drivers-their accent, their tea-making equipment and their reactions to the U.S.-provided the best newspaper copy. Said one, after cruising down Madison Avenue: "It's the pace you live that worries me more than the traffic. You've got no provision for the pedestrian...