Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonely lane winding amid stands of pecan trees and through fields of greening winter oats near Baton Rouge, a road construction gang one morning last week discovered the body of a woman: beside her 1960 Renault Dauphine lay Dr. Margaret Rosamond McMillan, 38, bludgeoned to death. The crime shook the campuses of Louisiana State University, both in Baton Rouge and at the New Orleans branch, where "Rosie" McMillan was an assistant professor of biology. The events that followed shook L.S.U. even harder...
Carroll made his move with a lap to go. He gained steadily on Murphy, and when the NYAC veteran inexplicably left the inside lane open, Carroll charged past him. The time was 2:09.2, lowering Ron Delany's old meet mark by a full second...
Along the eight-lane highways that stretch forth like tentacles from San Francisco, it was the time of day that tries men's carburetors: the evening rush hour. Everyone wanted to get home at once. Trapped in a snarling, bumper-to-bumper tie-up, Salesman Bink Beckmann reacted with unusual calm; he had a unique way of keeping his blood pressure down. On a tiny slip of paper he scrawled, "Hold dinner; traffic tie-up"; then he reached behind him into a cage, seconds later sent a homing pigeon fluttering out of the car window. A pigeon fancier, Beckmann...
...Baltimore, Methodists celebrated the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Methodist Church in America. At the Lovely Lane Church, named after the "meeting house" where the historic "Christmas Conference" took place, 289 Methodist pastors and wives assembled for a week-long reenactment of the founding. All were under 35, in commemoration of the youthfulness of the 83 circuit-riding preachers who organized the Methodist Church under Francis Asbury...