Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swipe at Britain's unilateral dis-armers, he said: "The treaty was not achieved by agitators sitting down in the public highway, but by statesmen sitting around the conference table." And he offered some invigorating invective against the "immature nonsense of socialism," which is trying to turn Great Britain into Little England. In a fourth Conservative election victory, said Butler, his party "must reject and repudiate these absurd aberrations of the left-wing mind...
...working well. One and a half square miles of Duisburg, including streets, wharves, shipyards, steel mills, railroad yards and parks, is sinking on schedule But as the city prospered, traffic congestion on Duisburg streets got worse and worse, and the obvious solution, a mile-long highway bridge to carry traffic over the tangle of factories, railroads and waterways, seemed impossible because of the sinking ground...
Instead, China apparently intends to keep out of the NEFA so long as her own possession of Ladakh, with its military highway to Tibet, remains undisturbed by the Indians. Quite aside from the lateness of the season, it is extremely unlikely that the Indians will ever disturb China in Ladakh. Last year's fighting showed India the dangers of opposing China militarily. Before risking military action, she would have to compose her quarrel with Pakistan, a procedure which would probably cost her more territory in Kashmir than she would gain in Ladakh...
...least likely person to have an accident, according to a National Safety Council study of 1962 statistics on 16 U.S. turnpikes, is a woman, either under 20 or over 55, driving on an icy highway between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on a misty Wednesday in February. The most likely candidate for siren and stretcher is a young man of 24 or 25, driving on a dry pavement at 5 p.m. on a Friday in July...
...last week, Thant's scheduled evacuation was causing alarmed protest from the U.S., Britain and Belgium, which doubt the Congo's ability to stand alone. In Katanga province, 15,000 ex-gendarmes of ousted Secessionist Moise Tshombe have vanished into the bush; roaming bands of them stage highway robberies and raid villages to guzzle the local beer stocks. The 30,000-man Congolese army, whose 1960 mutiny ignited the civil war, has produced a nucleus of disciplined officers, thanks to its spunky commander, General Joseph Mobutu; no longer are unarmed civilians shot down at random in Elisabethville...