Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trotted out solemnly as the favorite object of journalistic curiosity. But TIME takes a different view. Increasingly, the real business of journalism is not to report the newest transitory "scoop" or to record the latest accident (though FIVE KILLED IN HIGHWAY WRECK still has a local urgency). Our own job, in a world that gets more complex all the time, is to sort out the essential from the transitory, to get to the bottom of conflicting claims, to pierce through the propaganda and the puffery, to try to get the facts right and to make the conclusions sound. In doing...
...time comes for the hero to leave the beach. He unplugs everything, from the beach pad to the girl. Then he unplugs the lake itself; it shrinks to a small blue dot. He pumps up his car. He pumps up a highway and drives away...
...road he runs over a nail. Psssssssss, no car. Psssssssss, no highway. The hero lies injured on the non-road. A plug pops out of his thumb and psssssssss, no hero. Nothing left, just the nail...
...about 40% higher population. Perhaps, Bainbridge suggests, it's all the result of the old pioneer spirit. "Texans behind the wheel tend to excel by far all other Americans in aggressiveness, perhaps in this respect outclassing even the Germans. Courtesy can be expected on the splendid Texas highway system only from the lily-livered...
Some 25,000 visitors streamed in by automobile and pickup truck, by chartered bus and on horseback. Kennedy, flanked by Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr and Governor J. Howard Edmondson, stood on a bunting-decked stand alongside State Highway 103 and delivered a lackluster five-minute speech: "I can assure you, in the '60s, as the U.S. carries the standard of freedom everywhere in the world, we will also be carrying the standard of progress here in Oklahoma." There were some perfunctory pats for Bob Kerr, Senator Mike Monroney and Representative Carl Albert. Then the President snipped a ribbon across...