Word: highroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomb for Grandeur? Thus began the Saint-Sylvestre rush. Paris headlines blared: WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY. Down the highroad from the capital poured reporters and would-be Forty-Niners of the Atomic Age. In a Saint-Sylvestre pub simple peasants talked grandly: "Our village will make France powerful again. We, too, will have the bomb. They say you can run trains with this uranium. Cure the sick...
...Americans came to Korea (then known as the Hermit Kingdom) in 1882, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...
Rene Lalique's highly specialized talent brought him exaggerated fame on two continents. Even the highroad between Fifth Avenue and the rue de la Paix was Lalique-paved, in part: his most triumphant commission was the decoration of the S.S. Normandie's main dining room...
...picturesque folklore, Venus takes the highroad of sophisticated fantasy, which is an unpaved, bumpy, not-often-in-the-dough road...
Line or No Line? Fortnight ago a Russian communique denied that a Stalin Line "ever existed, or exists." In the sense of a continuous line, like the Maginot, none existed. But in the Smolensk area, blocking the traditional military highroad to Moscow-between the Dnieper and Dvina Rivers-the Russians had translated PU-36 into concrete and steel terms...