Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police return, and Malone slowly trucks the house from the site, pulling past the Pearl Grocery Mart and onto Route 80. The police escort halts traffic as Malone's son Greg leads the caravan in an attention-grabbing red-bannered pickup. Next come the police, a Mississippi Power & Light crew and Sister Grace, who occasionally slows down to take a picture. Bringing up the rear is Otis Towner at the wheel of the pickup carrying the steps. With hazard lights blinking, the procession crawls past the local U-Haul dealership, gas stations and the post office. Impatient drivers trail behind...
...what will go and where it will go," he boasts. The house fills both lanes and knocks into a speed-limit sign, shattering two back windowpanes. Shelton Kelly walks ahead, bending back or briefly yanking out a few signs in order to make room for the wide load. Oncoming traffic generally gives way, yet one van driver insists on trying to squeeze...
Fortunately, traffic around Canton is light, and the drive through town and up to Anderson's land proceeds without delay. Malone pulls the truck through an opening in the bushes and turns the rig around in front of the burned remains of the old house. "I think you should move it a little more away from the power line," the Mississippi Power & Light man warns Malone as he checks the house's positioning. Towner calls Anderson over to the front. "Do you like it here?" he asks. She looks up and down the building's length and along its sides...
...north in Oakland, auto mechanic Richard Reynolds glanced at the traffic on the double-decker I-880 freeway across the street and urged a friend not to drive to night school until after the rush hour. Minutes later, Reynolds felt "a ripple." Then a neighbor screamed a warning. He ran out of his shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway...
Lampoonery: Editors of the Harvard Lampoon were practically oozing their characteristic wit this week after guests at one of their weekly parties decided to get off by throwing lighted fireworks into traffic on Mt. Auburn St. Saturday night...