Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Udall does not exercise his right to declare Memorial Drive a historical site," Bernays said, "we have other means at our disposal to prevent the highway men from destroying the Drive...
...kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price, developers would have had to put up homes in the $30,000 class to make a profit. The tract lies vacant because no one wants to pay that much to live by the side of a highway...
...summer of 1948 when the Russians had sealed off Berlin and Murphy, who was serving as civilian political adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success of the airlift obscured the reality: that the U.S. had meekly surrendered its claims for "surface-level access." He did not resign...
...Mississippi sun dropping westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards, "Maintain White Democratic Solidarity--Vote Paul Johnson (Dem)" billboards, Kiwanis...
This is a pretty depressing state, and I've had a close look at some of its most depressing parts in the last couple of weeks. J--and myself were set afoot on highway 49 last week when a gun-waving state cop arrested everybody in our party with a Mississippi license and impounded our car. We later heard that he had some local yahoos out looking for us, but we walked the twenty miles from Yazoo City to Flora in the ditches along the roadside. Yazoo City is a bad problem; we managed to get a lady...