Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have seemed properly bucolic to a casual visitor. But not to the natives of the little (pop. 51) Maryland village. Stottlemyer was careful to obey the state law-one farm hand walked in front of the herd and one behind-but the villagers complained that the cows obstructed traffic, trampled flower beds, and left a trail of manure that was not only tracked into houses but sometimes caused children to slip and fall perilously close to passing cars. On their way between barn and pasture, the cows even poked their heads into the village store and let go with...
...decisive victory. Ruled Maryland's Court of Appeals: "The age of the auto has not eliminated the ancient right. We think that the villagers have shown that the periodic bovine excursions and their lingering residue occasion some inconvenience and annoyance to them. But the obstruction of traffic for a few minutes, the presence of manure on the highway and the occasional tracking of it into buildings are not inconveniences serious enough in a rural community to call for the restraining power of a court...
Underpass opponents also state that the construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike on a route roughly parallel to Memorial Drive should ease the Drive's traffic problem considerably, making construction of the underpasses now premature...
Seizing upon the sycamore about, Harvard and Radcliffe students took up the battle for Memorial Drive in their own way this spring. Nearly a thousand of them paraded down to the riverside, and, in a gay, cheerful mood, blocked traffic for more than an hour by sitting and standing in the roadway. MDC police, in a move that many felt tended to further excite the students, used dogs to break up the demonstration...
...Mall, is composed of existing federal buildings -the Department of Justice, the Post Office and Department of Commerce. The council now proposes to finish the northern triangle south of G Street, presently a junky commercial slum. The most striking feature would be a daring mezzanine that carries pedestrians over traffic. Lifting strollers over cars, it would bring people into shops, theaters, hotels and restaurants woven around new federal buildings. New commerce could draw Washingtonians, who are building away from the Capitol, back toward the center of the city...