Word: highway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just a little bit thicker," said one of the delegates, "he would have had everyone in that room run out and vote for him." He did slip once, though, when he told his visitors, all but one of them Negroes, how upset he had been at reports that his highway patrol had recently mistreated a couple of "niggers." Otherwise Wallace was as smooth and strong as bonded bourbon. He even gave the delegates autographed portraits of himself...
...bomb line was moving slowly closer to North Viet Nam's capital of Hanoi. Sweeping in from their carriers in the South China Sea, U.S. Navy fighter-bombers struck twice at a vital bridge link on the coastal highway just 65 miles south of the capital. The bombs and rockets that smashed the span marked the first time U.S. air power had hit a purely strategic target in North Viet...
...farm near Cristalina and hurried into town with the news. The reaction resembled The Gold Rush. The mayor, notary public, pharmacist and priest raced to the farm with the rest of the citizens hot on their heels. Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors...
...George Washington's Revolutionary headquarters in Morristown, N.J., marched a small army of residents wearing tricornered hats and flowing capes, toting vintage muskets and calling fellow citizens to arms. Their enemy? A six-lane superhighway that threatens to slice through the historic part of town. The fight-the-highway movement is not unique to Morristown. As the federal government's $41 billion interstate highway program enters its ninth year, more and more citizens are protesting that the road to faster automobile travel is not worth the havoc it often creates in the neighboring countryside...
With a far sharper eye on costs than on esthetics, engineers often design roads with a straight edge, dissecting suburban villages and overrunning metropolitan landmarks. State highway departments, eager to capitalize on the Government's offer to pay 90% of interstate highway costs, often want to build roads where residents think they are not needed. Among current battlefields...