Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vertijet. is a small, delta-winged job that takes off from a suspended position, hanging from a framework like a bat. Last week Test Pilot Peter F. Girard, sitting on his back with his face to the sky. started its powerful jet engines. As the roaring exhaust hit the pavement below, a spray of dirt and melted tar boiled into the air. When the X-13 became airborne, Pilot Girard maneuvered it off its suspension rig and free of the framework. Then he flew it upward like a deliberate rocket and made a gradual pushover to normal level flight...
...tall, handsome man with greying hair. While passers-by stopped to watch in horror and some screamed. "Beware, khawaga [foreigner]," Norman removed his watch and sunglasses, laid them on the parapet. Turning his back to the street, he moved three steps backward, dropped to instant death on the pavement...
...lasts all year round and starves ugly worms. So it is to be hoped than the Administration will act now, before this warmish weather goes too far and that despicable green grass begins to grow. It should cart away the mud, pave the Yard, and then paint the cement pavement green like that charming patch of man's answer to nature in front of Sever...
...Budapest which Ferenc Kocsis left behind was a ghost city. Streetcar lines were torn up, pavement stones had been piled into barricades, great buildings had been reduced to rubble, and fires still burned in others. There was not a whole pane of glass in the city. Nor was there a single Red star to be seen, or a Soviet monument. Even the boots of the gigantic statue of Stalin had been smashed to bits. The monstrous leonine head, spat on and befilthed, had long since disappeared...
...roads themselves. At a point ten miles east of the canal, the blacktop central road abruptly changed into a jumble of shredded rock. Giant-pronged Israeli machines similar to the "rooters" with which retreating Germans and Italians wrecked roads and railroads in World War II had ripped the pavement to a depth of 12 to 18 in. Last week gangs of Egyptian workmen moving up behind the Yugoslavs had put some 40 miles of railway back in service-but only one mile of highway...