Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the ice you mentioned, a favorite method of persuasion is the electric treatment . . . To drive a car here is as near to terror as can be. The traffic police can stop you for no reason whatsoever, accuse you of speeding (even if you are standing still), and haul you off to jail for a stay of ten days or a fine of anything...
...United States urgently needs to liberalize its foreign trade policy. We cannot hope to survive as free men-much less operate prosperous businesses -unless the Communist drive for world domination is checked. We cannot check Communist imperialism without strong allies. And we cannot have strong allies over the long haul unless the free world is liberated from crippling and divisive trade restrictions...
...Guatemala has the most frustrating gap. Mexico's fine paved stretch of the highway reaches the border at a different point from where Guatemala's road net touches the Mexican border. At present a 164-mile, $35 railway-flatcar haul bridges the gap. With $1,425,000 granted last October by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, construction is getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close...
...this reason, the Bandsmen will begin canvassing for funds in dining halls this evening. If they can get the necessary amount in the next two weeks, they will be able to haul a new drum onto the field for the opening football game next season. The new drum, in fact, will be bigger than the old, thus surpassing the instrument purchased by the University of Florida last year, once again giving the Band the biggest in the world...
Bone-weary from only six hours' sleep in three days, but having lost precious few points along the way, Sheila pulled into Monte Carlo along with 270 other finishers. There, after the long haul across Europe, the leaders put their cars through another ordeal: an exacting series of starts and stops, parking and braking tests, on the devilish Col de Braus, a steep circuit that climbs through the mountains behind Monte Carlo...