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Word: viaducts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street. I was in a huge traffic jam, going in the wrong direction. Ahead of me was some sort of viaduct, choked with traffic. I couldn't get over the notion that it was the bridge to the 21st century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENDLESS CAMPAIGN | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...when he was supposed to fire on some rival gang members but shot 14-year-old Shavon Dean instead. Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability. So he became a victim too. When he was found dead in a bloody mud puddle under a railway viaduct three days later, an entire city shuddered and clutched its children and looked for lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder In Miniature | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...Yummy Sandifer was found under a South Side train viaduct last Thursday, shot to death "execution style." He had two .22-cal. bullet wounds in the back of his head. Gang members had hidden Sandifer in various locations for three days, then, fearing the boy would crumble under police pressure, told him they were driving him out of town. Instead they killed him under the viaduct. "He never knew what hit him," said police spokesman William Davis. On Friday Chicago police charged two brothers, ages 14 and 16, with Sandifer's death. Police say the 14-year-old confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Are No Children Here | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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