Word: pavements
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While the advance of the ribbons of pavement will benefit the lives of many Americans, it will harshly disrupt the lives of many others. More than 2,000,000 acres of land will have to be bought to make way for the federal highway network alone. Roads will slice through densely populated cities and suburbs, displacing thousands of dwellers. They will cut across thousands of farms from coast to coast, often separating a farmer's house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week...
...hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay. One doughty fellow teased his friends with a mop until they charged him with chains, beat his face bloody and banged his head against the pavement. "Get up and you're dead," said a buddy, who kicked him in the groin and slouched...
...able Pietro Annigoni and the most debated sensation of the Royal Academy's new exhibition. Cried the London Daily Mall's critic: "If he really is like that, I shouldn't like to meet him in the dark." Rasped the Daily Mirror: "A very good pavement artist's job." "I wonder what the Queen thinks of [it]," mused the Star's observer. "It is of a husband as no wife likes to see him-cold, aloof, almost arrogant." Away from the storm in his Florence studio. Painter Annigoni backed down not a whit: "I painted...
...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...