Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...north of Palm Beach and again in Georgia, sweeping through the historic cities of Savannah and Charleston, S.C., with top winds of 90 m.p.h. As it moved north, property and agricultural damage was generally light, but accompanying rains were torrential, flooding the streets of several Eastern cities, interrupting rail traffic and causing major power failures. The final death toll: at least...
...through this engine would not cause a fire, the car owner involuntarily takes a step back from the open hood. But he perks up at hydrogen mileage figures. The car "should" get about 60 m.p.g. and, because of the hydraulic accumulator designed to take over during stop-and-go traffic, close to 100 m.p.g. in the city...
...processing of health forms, the refugees were hustled aboard buses and taken to a TraveLodge motel for introductory lessons on American life: how to operate light switches, how to use a toilet. Many stood on the motel's second-floor balcony and stared uncomprehendingly at the rush of traffic below. Others squatted on the pink sidewalk and simply gazed at their feet. They had journeyed several centuries in 19 hours, and the shock would be a long time wearing...
...moral and social failure, embellished by hedonism. The work ethic is nearly as dead as the Weimar Republic. Bureaucracies keep cloning themselves. Resources vanish. Education fails to educate. The system of justice collapses into a parody of justice. An underclass is trapped, half out of sight, while an opulent traffic passes overhead. Religion gives way to narcissistic self-improvement cults...
...sooner did the junta feel secure enough in victory to lift a 7 p.m. curfew than Managua burst into noisy life. Roadblocks at major intersections came down, and the streets filled with honking traffic. Restaurants and theaters showing old American films like Mandingo began to attract crowds. Radio Sandino, voice of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.), adjusted to the brand new beat: to its broadcasts of revolutionary anthems it added disco hits by the Bee Gees...