Word: asphalting
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...miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they saw the narrow ribbon of asphalt, happily lay down to sleep on the unique comfort of firm ground...
...smooth three-lane highway that cut a five-hour haul to 15 minutes. Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...
...lenses of his pince-nez. His thinning hair was pasted flat, and the raindrops trickled down the sleeve of his right arm as he raised it again & again to the crowds. Sometimes there were cheers, and sometimes little more than the swish of heavy tires on the wet asphalt streets. Some people caught sight of his infectious grin, some never saw him at all. Most got a bare glimpse of a lifted hat, a waved...
...York City's Municipal Asphalt Plant (see cut), exterior designed by Manhattan's Ely Jacques Kahn and Robert Allan Jacobs, once inspired the city's terrible-tempered Park Commissioner Robert Moses to remark: "Horrible modernistic stuff . . . what could be worse?" But it is doubtful whether many New Yorkers will long feel that way about a building whose flowing, oval contours harmonize so well with the serpentine East River Drive on which it stands...
Practice for battery men will be held every day in a basketball court on the newly asphalt-covered Briggs cage, and the entire squad will receive indoctrination in the wiles of Harvard baseball Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 o'clock...