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Word: weedgrown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...station attendant, it sounded like a shotgun volley: "I thought some nuts were dusting ducks under the bridge." Then the upstream side of the roadway tilted in surreal slow motion, spilling sparks from a parted power cable into the dusk and an estimated 60 vehicles onto the weedgrown riverbank and into the 6-m.p.h. current beneath. "It looked like a snake wiggling across the water," one witness exclaimed. Said another: "The bridge just keeled over, starting slowly on the Ohio side and then folding like a deck of cards to the West Virginia side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disasters: Collapse of the Silver Bridge | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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