Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern Wigglesworth, Straus, Lionel, and Mower were built to close the Yard off from noisy Harvard Square. The subway runs under Wigglesworth, but men get used to this and the other clatter from street traffic which reaches all four halls...
...individualism more than the French motorist. Only a few small towns have speed limits. A motorist may speed down Paris' famed Champs Elysées at 60 miles an hour, if he wants to (and often does). Result: France has over four times as many fatal traffic accidents per 100,000 drivers as the U.S. But even the French were startled last week by a statistic from one of the country's largest insurance companies: one in eleven French drivers, in his lifetime, kills someone...
Construction of U.S. highways is miles behind the outpouring of trucks and cars from Detroit, but in the heaviest-traveled, worst-tangled section of the nation, one bridge at least, has been crossed, and a lot of relief for traffic congestion is in sight...
Shawcross minimized the chief point of U.S. criticism: while Britain embargoes such obvious war goods as aircraft engines and arms, its chief exports to Iron Curtain countries are machinery and machine tools (60% of its $197 million Iron Curtain traffic last year) and raw rubber (7,000 tons in the first five months...
...truth as in ballad, was subject to broad interpretations on the narrow highways of 17th and 18th Century England. Bold Dick Turpin was one, but only one, of a numerous night-errantry that pranced the moonlight lanes about London, hearts high and pistols level, to cry the hapless traffic to Stand and deliver what it had in pocket. "The finest men in England, physically speaking," said Thomas De Quincey, "the very noblest specimens of man, considered as an animal, were the mounted robbers who cultivated their profession of the great roads...