Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down the Panhandle. Ashmore and Baggs were making their second visit to North Viet Nam. After 14 months, Baggs reported, the North's military and transport equipment had notably improved. Antiaircraft guns pointed skyward in thick clusters, and the often-bombed roads and makeshift pontoon bridges rumbled under a steady flow of new trucks. On the road from Hanoi to Haiphong, Baggs counted 157 trucks, then gave up counting as they kept coming. U.S. reconnaissance shows that many of those trucks are moving at high speed down into the panhandle near the border with South Viet...
...simply to bring new sand to the beaches-either hauling it in by truck or pumping it up from the ocean floor. Such methods have successfully rebuilt California's Redondo Beach, for example, where 14 years ago the waves were breaking over the sea wall and across the road behind. But these measures are expensive. Atlantic City has invested $9,000,000 over the years on a combination of jetties and pumping devices to keep its tourist industry alive. California spends more than $1,000,000 a year to keep sand on its beaches; the city of Santa Barbara...
Following an 8-3 Terrier triumph three Decembers ago at Walter Brown Arena O'Callahan explained the choice of Commonwealth Avenue instead of Soldiers Field Road as the site of his hockey education. "Harvard was trying to sell me on that education stuff," the then first-year defenseman from Charlestown said, "but I wasn't buying. I was looking for the best hockey around, and I guess this proves I found...
...Report's strongest critics point out that such hope cannot justify the Report. "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions," iconoclast Banfield quipped...
...Oscars it was the most honored film of the year. One of the weakest choices involved the year's other major race picture, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; William Rose's gummy screenplay outranked Bonnie and Clyde, La Guerre Est Finie and Two for the Road...