Word: macadam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Morning News. She started a new line of products at K Mart. What all this means is that an encounter with Martha will go on being an experience not so different from getting hit by a Mack truck full of daisies. As you peel yourself off the macadam, you're free to cry out against all that is filigreed, twice marinated and hand dipped. You may even be allowed to live. But you will know you have met the woman who sold colonial Williamsburg to Levittown...
...warm summer day in the hills of northern Transylvania. There is little traffic on the road, a strip of patched macadam that bisects the valley and climbs slowly through the trees to disappear in the direction of the Hungarian border. A pair of covered Gypsy wagons comes into view, each pulled by a stocky horse. As the wagons draw abreast, the driver of the first lifts his hat and waves. The second driver has stretched out and gone to sleep, the reins held loosely in hands clasped over his ample stomach...
...them up said only that they would not be gone long from Phnom Penh. At night they slept beside the road. After a few days, the flip-flops Seng and his family were wearing disintegrated, and they had no choice but to go barefoot on the road's blistering macadam. Frequently, Seng would ask if anyone had seen his missing daughters...