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Word: asphalted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...growl of four-wheel-drive vehicles pulling unsuspecting travelers out of the region's annual goo. The 949 frugal residents of Plainfield, Vt., authorized a study to see if they should keep their dirt roads-potholes and all-instead of paving them with expensive, and unprofitable, asphalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEASONS: Spring: It's Lethal and Lovely | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...REALITIES of Cambridge geography have not been kind to Harvard. The half mile of asphalt and brownstones separating the Quad and the Yard seemed insignificant enough when coed housing and other integrating moves were made. But it was big enough to produce one of the first campus issues of recent years to arouse more than a dinner conversation--the chronic housing problem...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: The Fox Trot | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

Their only monument the asphalt road...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Quiet in Panama | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

Healy, who left Harvard's asphalt wonders, the Classics, to join the varsity as a guard, will use his 5-ft., 10-in., 150-lb. frame to slide unnoticed into the world of giants and hopefully cause problems for opposing teams...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hoots, Healy Will Take Up Crucial Places As Cagers Attempt To Fill Personnel Cavities | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

What chance have snakes upon a asphalt road...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Epitaph For the Sun | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

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