Word: crosstown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern California (8-1)-lost its first game as a pass-interference play set up the winning touchdown for its otherwise lackluster crosstown rival, U.C.L.A...
...Widening of 39 boulevards to speed traffic into the city, and filling the unused New Basin Canal which slowed crosstown traffic...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...Manhattan last week, the New York Transit Authority put its pen to a $3,881,000 contract to build an entirely new system of transportation. The jammed, jolting old subway shuttle train between Grand Central Station and Times Square, half a mile crosstown, will be replaced by a gigantic conveyor belt carrying an endless chain of lightweight passenger cars. Riders will step onto a belt moving at 1½ m.p.h., and from there into cars which will then speed up to 15 m.p.h. for the two-minute trip to Times Square and slow down again to let them off. Builder...
...soon as the students heard of the ab duction, they called in the press to claim credit for a find that "may change our knowledge of the history of the Incas in Chile." When skeptical newsmen demanded to see the "mummy," the students led a caravan of cars crosstown to the Museum of Natural History...