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Word: traffice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promote U.S. travel to Britain. In the next 17 weeks, the buses and a British promotion entourage will swing through 46 major U.S. cities from coast to coast. For the cockney drivers, the first big test was to shake off a lifetime of keeping left in London's traffic; grimly they swung into right-hand U.S. traffic behind a police escort as they worked from the river over toward the welcoming ceremonies in midtown Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Big Red from Charing X | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...happiness does not last. The teacher turns Guillaume away in the end because he will not traffic with "aristocrats." In a scene of gruesome effectiveness, Guillaume and his father drown themselves. "In [the boy's] suffering body," concludes Mauriac, "a human spirit had lain unawakened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When God Slumbers | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Mass. On those occasions when he noticed his own whims, he liked to embellish them with wit. A man who saw him chasing his hat through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postscript on G. K. | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Yesterday's blinding snowstorm tied up air and motor traffic along the southern New England coast and buried Greater Boston in more than six inches of snow for the second time within ten days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Proves Wet Blanket For Transportation, Hockey | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

Most bus lines cancelled trips out of Boston late yesterday afternoon, and Logan International Airport closed at 7:30 a.m. to all outgoing traffic because of a low ceiling and poor visibility. A bus carrying the Brown hockey team to Cambridge was delayed and their contest at Harvard was postponed for over an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Proves Wet Blanket For Transportation, Hockey | 2/28/1952 | See Source »

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