Word: connect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million for airport, dock and road construction to connect backwater towns with larger population centers...
...Holyoke Center, we asked our guide whether it was usual to connect all new buildings to the Tunnel. He replied that the Tunnel is only extended when new buildings are close by. "Otherwise, the expense is prohibitive, and we just join the pipes through a trench." (A trench is a sort of small trough, big enough for pipes and cables but much too small for people.) Since the Tunnel comes down to Lowell House under Linden Street, Holyoke Center is not too far off the track, and a connection big enough for people was feasible. Instead of constructing a full...
Explaining that 50 per cent of the city's traffic is merely passing through, they said that the Inner Belt, a super highway, that will connect Boston and most of its suburbs, will improve matters considerably...
...Round One Cassius was a dancing master, ducking, slipping and backing away from a barrage of Liston lefts. Gloves near his waist, Clay seemed to be taunting Sonny to connect; Sonny never did. Sometime during this first round Liston claims to have injured his shoulder trying to block a Clay punch; it was not apparent to the viewers. Liston stalked Clay from the moment the bell sounded, connecting with hard shots to the body, but more often missing with ferocious jabs. Clay scored with a volley of six punches to Sonny's head and capped them with a sharp right...
After 162 years of debate and divagation, fears and false starts, France and Britain last week decided to connect island and mainland with a crossChannel tunnel. The governments approved a recommendation made last September by an Anglo-French study group that found a railroad tunnel "technically possible and economically desirable." But still to be answered were two major questions. Should the "chunnel" (for channel tunnel) be bored through the chalk of the channel bottom, or should 23 miles of segmented tubes be laid across the intervening seabed? And how would the $448 million project be financed? Chunnel buffs talked excitedly...