Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large bowel just below the ileocecal valve. Then he cuts a hole in the side of the large bowel, and sews the small bowel to it. The 6-ft. length of the lower end of small bowel is not removed but left like an old roadbed alongside a highway-straightening project...
...political idol, Barry Goldwater, to the White House. He dismissed Democrat Hove as a "fuzzy, liberal, socialist egghead," concentrated his fire on Fellow Republican Andrews. "The middle of the road has shifted to the left of center," cried Scott of Andrews' moderate views. "The center line on the highway is dangerous ground...
...their prepositioned hardware-319 M48 medium, 50-ton tanks, 76 howitzers, 429 armored personnel carriers. Stockpiled during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the equipment has been sitting idle ever since. At Kaiserslautern three unbroken columns of tanks, guns and ammunition stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous helpings of chicken, turkey, potatoes, ice cream, crisp red apples, bread and fresh butter at improvised field kitchens...
...report, entitled "Research on Fatal Highway Collisions," attacks the tendency of public agencies to apply the tag "accident" to traffic deaths without any attempt to make a thorough investigation...
...Bitten. After 14 years in the House, Gore handily won the Senate seat of aging Kenneth McKellar in 1952, soon won choice assignments on the Finance, Foreign Relations and Joint Atomic Energy committees. He was the Senate's chief sponsor of the 1956 bill creating the interstate highway system, then killed Eisenhower's plan for bond financing and substituted his own pay-as-you-go tax system. In 1958, he was the first Senator to propose a treaty with Russia banning atmospheric nuclear testing...