Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLARE of bands and crackling orders shattered the pineland quiet near Colorado Springs. The giant $133 million motel-like complex of aluminum and glass was ready at last. Into the U.S. Air Force Academy marched 1,148 cadets to face a tough, four-year program with the broadest curriculum yet devised for future U.S. military leaders. For news of their first days, their curious customs, and lingo as well, see EDUCATION, Home of the Doolies...
...comprised the newest of the academy's four classes, set up three years ago in temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. They were a strange sight to be parading a courtyard befitting a grand motel. Incongruous was the battle dress, designed for fighting men, worn by youngsters to whom the annealing process of military life was still incomplete-and incongruous, too, were the orders shouted by cadet officers, straight and cold as steel girders: "All men quartered in Area D, be sure to keep your shades pulled when changing clothes! There are secretaries across...
...ornate complex of glass and aluminum buildings stood all but deserted in the pine-covered heights of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, like a giant motel that was somehow mistakenly plopped down in a forest. Here and there a lonely figure in khakis scurried across the shimmering terrazzo courtyards and disappeared into a wall of glass. Then suddenly, into the woodland slumber burst the sound of a brass band and the clack-clack of boot-steps-and up the ramp into the spacious grounds marched 450 men, battlegarbed in steel helmets and full field packs. Their young faces were almost...
Having finished a parody of decent domesticity, "Hum" and "Lo" embark on a parody of incest that takes them across the continent. They restlessly traverse the neon-lit landscape of filling stations, diners, small towns, automobiles and asphalt -the motel tundras where, if one pays, checks out by noon and turns in the key, one can voyage to the end of night...
...Lebanon in north central Kansas. This is the geographical center of the U.S., a trifling fact established 40 years ago in much that way, by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Pridefully, Lebanon put a marker on the spot, struck off fitting souvenirs, built a new $50,000 motel and counted 20,000 tourists a year...