Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buddies. At one point, Lieut. Fields himself marched up to the Communist lift-gate, raised it, got back in his truck and ordered his driver to go on through. But just as his truck inched across the line, two Russian personnel carriers drew up and blocked Fields's path. This stopped the Americans again...
...hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path. But in one of those violent quirks of nature, incredibly compounded by man, all the warnings proved futile. By the time Flora finished her ten-day rampage through the Caribbean, she went down in history as one of the most devastating storms ever to strike the Western Hemisphere-a killer...
...noon on Sept. 30, Flora swept down on the island of Tobago, the legendary land of Robinson Crusoe off the Venezuelan coast. Entire plantations of coconut palms were flattened as by a scythe. It took only four hours for Flora to come and go. In her path she left 18 dead, hundreds injured, some 17,000 homeless, and property damage that helpless authorities estimated at many millions...
...Mount Toe. Moreover, loose earth had been creeping down the mountainside for two weeks prior to the disaster; the dam's supervisors had lowered the reservoir level 21 ft. and evacuated some smaller villages above the reservoir. But even though it lay directly in the dam's path, Longarone was not evacuated...
Lastly, a few students still do what little they can to oppose the government. Some realize the government has blocked every avenue of peaceful change and that violence is the only path left open to the Africans. Nevertheless, almost all these students feel that they themselves could not indulge in any violence...