Word: graveled
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...smoking guns, maybe, but there have been newsmaking incidents, like that little fund raiser held by the sand-and-gravel industry a few years ago for a state-senate committee chairman the day before he was to consider a bill helpful to the industry. (He denies being swayed.) And earlier this year, senate majority leader Chellie Pingree received a letter from a Pfizer Corp. lobbyist saying the firm would no longer contribute to state Democrats after she and the house speaker pushed the prescription-drug bill...
...last year or two, the town roads department has been experimenting with compounds, a gravel-and-clay surface, easier than dirt to plow and maintain - but not yet asphalt. That seemed a good compromise; the baby powder still fills...
...police roared past her on dirt bikes, heading for a young man who had stepped off a path onto the grass. They slid the bikes in front of and behind the boy, and told him sternly, repeatedly, to get back on the gravel trail...
...human tide, surging toward Namdaemun, the city's Great South Gate, and I inched my jeep through it, fighting back an almost uncontrollable urge to jump out and hide somewhere. But at a crossroads, the others were waiting, and we pushed on into open country, along the rough gravel road snaking between paddy fields. Late that day, near Taejon, some 90 miles below Seoul, we spotted a jeep approaching. Perched in the back was the South Korean Defense Minister; Korea's autocratic old President, Syngman Rhee, could not be too far away...
Near the town of Coldwater in Tate County, Miss., where the kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...