Word: macadamized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain before Tokyo's Imperial Palace, General Tanaka barked another set of orders in the name of a greater Japan. Once again a roar of motors responded and the old commander's new squadron, a fleet of seven jaunty green motorized pedicabs, went putt-putting down the macadam road on their test flight. They have the name "Qu' avec"-a Japanese notion of the way a Frenchman might say "With whom?" "I call them 'Qu' avec,'" simpered Tanaka, "to indicate that boy & girl might get together pleasantly in pedicab...
...sudden Vag felt alone. It was unpleasant. He dug his heels into the macadam...
...anniversary, somebody scuttled across the runway at Managua's Xolotlán airfield to leave a memorial to the slain revolutionist: a bunch of red carnations, straw flowers and bougainvillea. At dawn, the fat tire of a Nicaraguan air force C46 rolled over the flowers, staining the black macadam with scarlet pulp at the spot where the Guardia is said to have buried Sandino...
This week Marlboro College is ready to open its doors, officially on schedule, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The dirt road from Molly Stark Highway to Potash Hill needs a macadam surface. The college "laboratories"-war-surplus huts from an army air base-have not arrived...
...campaign that few thought would succeed. He had about two divisions of American-trained Chinese and a group of American and Chinese guerrilla fighters led by Brigadier General Frank Merrill. As Stilwell fought his way southeast through rugged country and equally rugged Japanese, engineers followed close behind, building a macadam highway...