Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Need to Suffer. Before the trial, Weyer brought in two psychiatrists. Violet, they concluded, was the sort of woman who had a "need" to "place herself in great jeopardy and receive punishment." Many years before, for example, Violet unreasoningly blamed herself when her first husband was killed in a traffic accident. The doctors also agreed that Violet had a tendency to get herself into "situations where she was either beaten or subjected to frightening experiences by her husband"; it was known that Marion Sill had often beaten his wife...
...trouble to report, too. "Riots," said the Red radio, "broke out in Nghean Province when a gang of reactionaries, taking advantage of mistakes committed during the political implementation of the land reform, molested soldiers and cadres of the people's regime, seized quantities of arms and blocked traffic. Many dead and wounded were reported among the soldiers and cadres. Drastic measures have been taken to maintain security...
Approximately one parking space for every five College students has been provided for in a huge underground parking lot. These spaces will be rented by the University for a nominal fee. Massachusetts Avenue, according to the plans, will be closed to all traffic except buses. Mt. Auburn St. will become the central artery...
...guard on balconies before closed iron shutters, as from five narrow streets the mob surged in. The Communists greeted them with a fusillade of bottles, one a Molotov cocktail that exploded in flames in the crowd (see cut). The youths regrouped and rushed the building. One shinnied up a traffic light to fasten a bloodstained Hungarian flag. The others pried at the shutters, smashed the windows and climbed inside...
...depression over the sufferings of Hungary was so widespread that radio stations canceled regular programs and switched to serious music; the opening of the annual carnival season was postponed indefinitely; bars and dance halls were empty for much of the week. At noon one day, all work and traffic throughout West Germany was halted for three silent minutes, and for three days flags were lowered to half-staff. There were mass demonstrations in every major city and university town, topped by an outburst of 100,000 in West Berlin...