Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital artery. As a bonus, some of the bombs were equipped with time fuses set to explode days after impact and thus inhibit digging-out operations. The word was that from now on, the B-52s will be used over the north whenever needed. Taking advantage of the traffic piled up behind Mu Gia by the avalanches, U.S. planes periodically bombed and strafed stalled convoys, sending gigantic fireballs into the air and, in one raid, destroying 42 trucks-a record number...
...their part, showed that they have not lost their sting. In their most successful attack of the war on an American installation, they launched a daring nighttime hit-and-run mortar barrage against crowded Tan Son Nhut airbase three miles north of Saigon, which serves both commercial and military traffic and is the world's busiest airport (1,512 landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets, and destroyed four parked aircraft...
...City Council yesterday referred Councillor Walter J. Sullivan's delaying order to Traffic Director Robert Rudolph for consideration. The Council told Rudolph to report back in two weeks and inform it on the possibilities of painting the crosswalks and still enforcing the law near the already set May 15 date...
...George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense that policemen were required to keep pedestrian traffic moving. The price it commanded, $10,000, was the highest paid up to that date for a painting by a living American artist. Yet when Church died in 1900, his fame had been so eclipsed that obituaries noted, "the fact that he was still alive had been almost forgotten...
...final use of this land has not been decided, and, as a result, the completion of Pei's masterplan has been delayed. The masterplan, showing exactly what buildings would go on the MBTA yards as well as proposed parking and traffic changes, had originally been expected in the spring. It will now be at least early summer before the plan is ready...