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Word: highway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also make up for India's entire food deficit, and still have food left over. They should, but they don't; this is why, if you catch the morning flight to Dacca before the sanitation department gets to work, you can sometimes see bodies stretched out along the highway. A very puzzling country, Bangladesh...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Hunger and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

...silver jet had landed at the remote Bayside Coast Guard facility of San Francisco International Airport at 10:16 that morning. As he emerged after a pleasant weekend stay at the Monterey home of U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone, the security lineup was impressive: Secret Service agents, highway patrolmen, military police, county police and a special San Mateo County S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) sniper squad with rifles and camouflage gear. As the motorcade headed into town, every overpass was guarded by two officers with rifles at the ready. A security helicopter chopped overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...engine and sticker-priced at $2,899 (a model with a back seat costs $3,098). According to GM, soon-to-be-released Environmental Protection Agency figures will show that the Chevette gets 28 to 30 miles per gallon in city driving and 39 to 40 m.p.g. on the highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reply to Imports? | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...this newspaper, which gained an exclusive interview. The who-what-when-where continued: Whitmore had been on a fishing trip with his wife and two teenage sons in Canada, and no, he hadn't stopped by Rhinelander for any particular reason, only that it was on the highway, but yes, it looked a fine community, and there sure were some great muskies, he'd heard, in Canada, but he hadn't been able to reel any in. Then two Kodakolor snapshots of Whitmore trudging across the campground puffing on a pipe, wearing sneakers. Picture courtesy of Mrs. Ellen Scholl, Sheboygan...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 9/25/1975 | See Source »

...Kansas, where a quarter of the state force has installed CB sets at its own expense, troopers are reaching the scene of serious accidents in one-third the time it took two years ago. "If you want to travel safely, the only way to go is CB," says Kansas Highway Patrol Sergeant Oscar Becker. He adds dryly: "And there's a lot more wit on CB than you'll get on TV." Perhaps. From the elevated perch in a truck cab, drivers are ever alert to the virtues of attractive legs in passing cars. Reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Drivers' Network | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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