Word: highway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High-middling is I Love My Bonny Bride, a virtuoso piece in which the preparations for a 19th-Century wedding are perceived through a child. Weakest is Love by the Highway, in which a man and woman talk finishing-school folk poetry, skid off the thin edge into silliness...
...roads originally laid out for the camp were too narrow (16 feet); a fine system of 44-foot trunk roads is now abuilding. Traffic on the State highways between Fort Bragg and Fayetteville got into fatal snarls. Until General Devers put his military police on the job, deaths on the highway averaged one every four days. Temporary hospital quarters in the brick barracks were sloppy makeshifts. Four locomotives, shunted on to nearby sidings, last week provided steam heat for an uncompleted hospital...
...This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force straddled the highway to Tripoli and waited...
...British apparently saw advantages in pressing on. At week's end they announced that advance forces had already taken el-Aghéila, 170 miles beyond Bengasi and half way across the Sirte desert. There were hints that mechanical units would press on along the coastal highway, that troops might be transported...
...Nicaragua, $2,000,000 for its section of the Inter-American highway...