Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside of town, meantime, troops barricaded the main highway and waited for the Jordanian soldiers they knew would be rushing over from nearby Hebron. Sure enough, 20 truckloads soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back...
...tourists have swept through-most of them to bask in the sun on once-deserted Black Sea beaches, others to visit Sofia's antiquity-rich hinterland dotted with Thracian, Macedonian and Roman ruins. Recently, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Turkey joined in a tourist venture publicizing "historic" Highway E-5-the Roman route to the Near East that later carried Crusaders and pilgrims in their long journey to the Holy Land. The publicity blurbs pointedly failed to mention that the road also served the Turkish janizaries in their harsh 500-year occupation of Bulgaria...
Shield on the Underbelly. The highway project reflects Bulgaria's growing interest in cultivating its once-hated Balkan neighbors. Foreign Minister Ivan Bashev visited Ankara last year, recently approved an agreement with Greece to increase trade and tourism. Exulted one Bulgarian in Sofia last week: "The Balkan powder keg is a thing of the past." Nothing dies harder in the Balkans than ancient history, however, and the Bulgarians are still effusive each year in their thanks to Russia for freeing them from Turkish bondage 88 years ago. What's more, the Kremlin is pleased to see Bulgaria...
...Grasshopper," syllabic verse, gives us the poet contemplating a dazed grasshopper on the highway. The general simplicity of its diction make soccasional eclecticisms quite exciting...
Fahrenheit 451. The Red Beast roars as it leaps into the sunlight. Thirty feet Tom nose to tail and wrapped in scarlet p1ates of steel, it hurtles down the highway at 100 m.p.h. Outside a new apartment house, it screams to a rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...