Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cross-country skiers in droves hit the streets of Cambridge, which were closed to non-official vehicular traffic...
...snow stranded about 200 of the 13,000 spectators at the Beanpot Hockey Tournament in Boston Garden overnight as major traffic arteries were closed...
Across its 1,000-mile-wide path, the storm found many. About 100 people died as a result of the violent weather, many of them trapped in cars on drift-blocked roads. Wisconsin's Dodge County Traffic Chief Vic Gherke warned motorists: "If you go out, even for an emergency, you're on your own. You can expect no help." In Ohio, where more than half the roads were closed, 7,700 people were rescued from snowbound cars. Governor Rhodes declared a state of emergency and called out 2,500 National Guardsmen to help with rescue efforts. President...
...city was coming to life. The first car whooshed unchallenged by any traffic down Mass. Ave, at 4 a.m., and the newspaper bails were thrown out onto the sidewalks. People began emerging from the subways like sudden shadows, and like some collective incarnate, the city stoked its fires and started to roll...
Still, there are moments when the writer practically dithers with good-hearted advice to lovelorn friends. At such times, he seems rather sweetly engaged in life's daily emotional traffic, even though Kafka was aware that he could never experience what Thomas Hardy called "the wonder and the wormwood of the whole...