Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly two hours tonight, police chased demonstrators through the primarily residential Dupont Circle area, sporadically tossing tear gas into crowds, scattering demonstrators and bystanders down side streets, and tying up traffic throughout the District...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 14-This city is tense as participants and marshals, police and federal troops prepare for Saturday's huge march protesting the War. Rain and hail this afternoon and bitter cold tonight have not prevented traffic from slowing almost to a halt as thousands pull into the District by buses, cars, trains, and thumbs...
...city of the ancient world; according to the Bible, it was "the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." Ancient Athens, for all its architectural and intellectual glory, was scarcely more than an overgrown slum; the grandeur of Rome was overshadowed by its ramshackle ghettos, crime rate and traffic jams. Sanitation was so bad in the Paris of Louis XIV that two miles from the city's gates a traveler's nose would tell him that he was drawing near. Scarcely anyone today needs to be told about how awful life is in nerve-jangling New York...
...idea of basic protection was first formulated by Keeton and professor Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois in their 1965 book Basic Protection for the Traffic Victim. The two have also published a less technical book, When Cars Crash, to explain the plan to the layman...
...convinced that the violence was over. As the afternoon wore on, the military attempted a few flanking movements in an effort to cut off the demonstrators sitting on the steps. They were repulsed. SDS had set up their microphones on the wall beside the top steps and was directing traffic and posting troop movements for those who couldn't see: "About 50 MP's are trying to block off the stairs... they're using tear gas... it looks like our people have them surrounded... yup, it looks like a rout," one of the speakers calmly announced to the crowd...