Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...
...siphoned off many conservative Democratic votes that otherwise would have gone to Abe Beame; he scared many liberal Democrats into voting for Lindsay. In the campaign, however, he momentarily fascinated many liberals with some thoughtful proposals (a heavy inbound toll on Manhattan bridges and tunnels to reduce traffic into the city), some antic ones (building an overhead bikeway down Second Avenue so that New Yorkers could improve their muscle tone), and almost total political candor. Even that well-known liberal Groucho Marx said that if he were a New Yorker, he'd vote for Buckley. And he wasn...
...will be at least two weeks before Ford gets back into full production. Ford had already lost $1 billion in car and truck sales to its 7,200 dealers. In the mid-October selling period, Ford sales plunged 65% while its strike-free rivals forged ahead. So slow is traffic in Ford showrooms that the company plans to start the year all over again, with a "second introduction" of its 1968s. There was one casualty: because of strike delays, Lincoln's new small-sized Continental Mark III, which was originally supposed to appear in February, will not be able...
...responses after light touches the retina's receptors. Using horseshoe crabs, which have relatively simple eyes, and frogs, he recorded the electrical signals sent out by a single nerve fiber, learned the neural influences of one receptor cell on another. "We listened in," he explains, "on the small traffic signals in the body of the crab...
...Angeles, the afternoon commuter hours are dominated by KHJ's "drive-time man," the Real Don Steele. "My voice," he boasts, "can cut through the traffic noise." Sample: "A world premiere right here on the Real Don Steele show-boss hit-bound the Lovin' Spoonful's She Is Still a Mystery at 3:43 KHJ, break-the-bank time on the Real Don Steele show pow-pow-pow-pa-dow, umph!" Though incoherent to untutored ears, the spiel mentions all the essentials: name of the show, title of song, performer, time, station identification and promotion...