Word: macadam
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...shot of B.C.'s number three man plunked down in a pine tree, from which he extricated it by hitting with the backside of his club. Cahill of Brown found his ball suspended in a bush but he managed to nudge it onto the macadam path that leads up to the green, only to have it roll 60 yards backwards toward...
...city kids are sticking close to home and jumping on the New York City basketball bandwagon. Just a few of the converts from playground macadam will tread the hardwood of the IAB this weekend...
...Bicentennial Administration, and aided by an army of volunteers, the Burdens charted a relatively picturesque, somewhat historic, largely traffic-free, and not overly demanding route. Since crossing deserts is hazardous, the western end of the trail was kept wen to the north. The North Central plains tend toward macadam monotony, so the route drops south to skirt the Ozarks. To avoid urban sprawl, Bike-centennial is a Baedeker of back roads...
Travis tries desperately to make some sort of contact with the world, but he is systematically rebuffed. The macadam mob--taxi-dispatchers, hookers, pornographic movie-house vendors--looks at him with sullen, suspicious eyes. The claustrophobic routinization of their lives, the daily bombardment of the senses, has forced them into the defensive position of "cool". They are wary, detached from their experience; some adopt swaggering, arrogant personae, others merely become dead to the world--all of them are irreversibly divorced from their emotions...
...solve" the problem, the designers have chosen to pave most of the court. The only such precedent within the Yard is the area in front of Lehman Hall. Lehman's public and prominent position at the most urban point in the Yard justifies the use of a brick and macadam ground surface. Introducing a paved court to a freshman dorm complex could provide it with a distinctly urban quality which would sharply and disturbingly contrast with the pastoral, town square (as opposed to city center) nature of the rest of the Yard...