Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such competition set even the Romans to doing as the non-Roman tourists did: they shrugged off the heat, plunged into gloriously chaotic traffic jams and struggled out to see the greatest show in sports. For a close-up view of the athletes, Romans lined an elevated highway that passed Olympic Village and peered at the girls through binoculars. Cracked California's 800-meter runner. Pat Daniels: "I feel like a monkey in a cage." One rubbernecker made it past frantic Italian guards at the gate of the men's quarters by simply stripping to his shorts...
...them, wearing the uniform of the loyal French-officered Harki troops, stopped a car on the highway and shot its driver dead. About 30 other terrorists sprang from the woods and set upon the crowded coastline. They kicked open several cottage doors and machine-gunned people inside. Bathers caught out in the open were ordered not to move; some were picked off by the rebels, a survivor later related, "like so many rabbits." When French armored cars rushed up 15 minutes later, 13 bathers lay dead or dying, and another 30 wounded. Soon 6,000 French troops poured into...
...reception, Ike turned in another rare performance with an extemporaneous talk next morning at a breakfast for 600 Republicans. "In the operation of any great human organization," he said, "constructive plans and programs must be developed in the great middle road . . . Most people instinctively grow to like the paved highway, and they understand here it is where human progress is achieved. Those that march in the gutter, in the extremes of the right and the left, in the long run are always defeated." He also reminded his fellow Republicans that he was not yet to be relegated to history...
...registered last June, segregates the 25 Negroes among them. Braving the icy stares and stony silence of the white people, the FBI men studied the lists with profound interest. All the while, the summer sun beat down on Fayette County and on the sign that rises conspicuously along U.S. Highway 64 at the entrance to the county seat of Somerville. It says: REPENT OR PERISH...
WORLD'S LARGEST combination of bridge and tunnel (17.6 miles) will be built across Chesapeake Bay with $200 million revenue bond issue. Two tunnels, a bridge and 11.9 miles of causeway will link Cape Charles, Va. with Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk, pave way for a new coastal highway along the Virginia seacoast to provide most direct north-south route between New England and Florida...