Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's Vasp Airlines in the crowded air corridor between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All 27 aboard both planes were killed, their bodies strewn along more than two miles of rugged mountain terrain. The smaller plane's pilot had strayed into a lane reserved for scheduled commercial airliners...
Hurrah for Lane County, the land...
...they did not happen to be in Lane County, they were usually bright enough to substitute their own whereabouts...
...ring around the outskirts of Moscow, was begun in 1956 and completed two years before the target date with the help of more than 100,000 students, workers and other Muscovites who put in long hours of volunteer labor on weekends. Since this is the first modern divided-lane highway in all Russia, thousands of Muscovites swarmed out on the inaugural day to have a look. Most of the spectators came on foot; the few lucky ones who own cars excitedly opened them up to the maximum 80 m.p.h., unmindful of the washboard ripples and wavy indentations on the brand...
Since the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act legalized off-track betting in Britain, every day is Derby Day for Britain's multitudinous gamblers. With wagering booming to $56 million a week, few have won more than Bookmaker Mark Lane, 45, who took his first bets in a shipboard pool as a World War II Tommy. When the shooting stopped, Lane set up as a bookmaker to take track bets on credit in London's East End. Since then, he has opened 16 bet shops, plans to start four more. Seeking expansion capital, Lane last week became the first...