Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, only the less adept or mobile were caught. Seeing police take a stance of calculated restraint, adults joined in the pillage. Often cops stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...since the funeral of John F. Kennedy had the nation so deeply involved itself in mourning. Streets customarily thronged with busy city traffic echoed eerily and emptily under sunny skies; banks and department stores, their windows unlit, were closed all or most of the day; schools in many cities were shuttered in tribute. As is their wont in time of national tragedy, the American people turned to their television sets. An estimated 120 million watched a funeral march that lasted more than three hours, twice as long as that for President Kennedy...
...lights change to a fixed "DON'T WALK" for traffic to contentedly break into a shuffle. Just then a 9-year-old girl, blonde hair wheeling, a Titian on thin limbs, ambles resolutely into the street, waving her cigarette. The cars squeeze to stop, the girl reaches the opposite bank and vanishes into the faulted crowd. If Moses were alive today he wouldn't be a bearded patriarch swinging a knobby wand...
...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...
With some small improvements the basic traffic congestion in the Square will remain as it is. Direct access to Mt. Auburn St. will be possible by making a right turn from Brattle Square...