Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor chisel to carve out tomorrow's justice. Black Power is an implicit and often explicit belief in black separatism. Yet behind Black Power's legitimate and necessary concern for group unity and black identity lies the belief that there can be a separate black road to power and fulfillment. Few ideas are more unrealistic. There is no salvation for the Negro through isolation...
...with a drawl). Other witnesses recounted in detail how a man of that description ran from the rooming house at the time of the shooting (6:01 p.m.), leaped into a white Mustang with no front license plate (all Tennessee cars have two), and then "laid rubber" up the road. Those clues-plus a total reward offer of $100,000-seemed more than enough to turn up the killer...
While the Air Cavalrymen leapfrogged ahead to seize high ground and set up artillery protection, the Marines marched on either side of Route 9 and straight down the potholed road itself, clearing mines and repairing bridges. Accompanied by M48 tanks and truckloads of ammunition, rations and bridge girders, they marched toward Khe Sanh. Overhead, five-string formations of Huey helicopters carried the Air Cavalrymen, giant Chinook choppers hauled slings of artillery, and flying cranes brought in bulldozers...
...local murders, fires, accidents, strikes and suicides, with an emphasis on the bizarre. A typical lead articles tells of a sideshow performer who walked into a Pittsburgh police staion and "told a weird and tearful story of having shot to death her roustabout lover on a lonely Kentucky road...
...hilly land is not being used for agriculture, but where it is, cultivation is intensive. At one village we stop to watch the many women who are weeding on the hill-slope. Down in the valley an Arab is ploughing with two oxen. A little further along the road we see a man ploughing with an ox and a donkey brought under one yoke...