Word: asphalted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slalom skier or dancer. With giant strides of legs and arms, head high, he races westward through the cornfields. One clearly senses that there is more driving him on than the headlines in local papers. For Shaw, there is another dimension of reality out there on the great American asphalt. "Coming down a long hill with the wind at your back and the road to yourself is a high," Shaw says. "It's a thrill you never forget." He sees considerable wildlife and often flushes pheasants...
...tape, automobile brake linings, vinyl floor tiles and metal alloys contain asbestos, as do a whole host of plastic articles ranging from frying pan handles to playdough. The asbestos-cement industry is a principal user, employing asbestos in the fabrication of shingles, insulation and plastic board, pipes, roadways, sidewalks, asphalt and almost every other fireproof or high-friction cement product. No satisfactory substitute has yet been discovered...
...curves, I twisted my neck around to see what they were doing. It took each egg about a second to hit the ground, so there was a string of yolk and goo streaming out fifty yards behind our cycle. Leaving several very stringy omelets baking on the hot September asphalt...
...tracks, and still freight cars. It then runs parallel to a river, crosses over, and continues through a residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond set among grassy walkways and elaborate shubbery. To the left stand weather-beaten houses crushed together on littered asphalt streets. A middle-aged woman stands in her musty living room, the wallpaper peeling and the rug spotted with stains. She buttons the coat of her seven-year-old boy and looks over to her other three children: "Now, are we all ready?" They walk out the door, with...
...Soldiers Field are not in very good shape. As a matter of fact, except for some of the nets, they are in about as bad a shape as tennis courts can be in. The surfaces are not just cracked, they are pitted, and in some places chunks of asphalt have come away. The lines have disappeared for long stretches--and not just the baselines, either...