Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case can be made for either alternative, but the DPW's decision should at least be recognized for what it is. The department says that the Inner Belt will cost Cambridge the homes of only 1235 families. This is true only in the literal sense: the bulldozers clearing a path for the highway will destroy the homes of these families. But after the Belt is constructed, the homes of the thousands of people between the Belt and the expanding area of industry will be vulnerable. The Belt will have taken away many of the reasons for remaining -- it will have...
...Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong," G. K. Chesterton echoed many Americans: "It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober...
...sophisticated silhouette pictograms intended to point the path to the lavatories were so escteric that many people could not tell what they were, managed to find washrooms only after many desperate queries. The Gyrotron, the highly ballyhooed simulated trip from space orbit to volcano core, broke down and may not be in operation again for six weeks...
...popular with the mass of the people. Schooled by his father since childhood in the art of kingship, Constantine ascended the throne at 23. But, for all his youth, he has proved to be an able leader. Until last week at least, he had kept Greece on the path of constitutional monarchy in the face of heavy pressures from both ends of the political spectrum. He has kept the country closely tied to NATO. In recent years, Greece has become an associate member of the European Common Market, and its economic growth rate has risen almost 8% annually. Constantine...
...books to look, not to listen or to feel. And seeing imposes a very different perspective from hearing or touching. The eye can only move in straight lines, taking in one word or one idea at a time. The railroad, like the eye, moves in a direct, unbroken path, and could only have been conceived in an eye-oriented society. The same is true for the assembly-line. And the Maginot line. And the reception line, and the linotype machine...