Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good walk from the center of town, down a long hill bordered by paint-peeling houses. Nine years ago, before Fidel Castro's sudden revolution, American tourists used to take a taxi up the hill into Cuba's gleaming capital. Today, there is almost no traffic on that road. The real center of power is elsewhere. The slit-windowed, modern United States Embassy on the seafront no longer dictates the politics and the economics of this island. The scrupulously neutral Swiss now handle American interests in Cuba, and that means handling the unceasing trickle of Cubans who have had enough...
...three islands of St. Kitts, Nevis (which is two miles from St. Kitts) and Anguilla, despite an uncomfortable relationship between the first two and the third; and ultimately Anguilla, after three months of association, expelled the 13 St. Kitts policemen on their island and struck out on the road to unilateral independence...
...Viet Cong first broke through the perimeter opposite the refugee quarter and forced the outmanned militia force to retreat aross the road into the town proper. There the militiamen were surrounded and isolated-and for the rest of the macabre night pointedly ignored by the marauders. The Viet Cong were not intent on a military victory but on the coldblooded, monumental massacre of the helpless Montagnards...
...weeks. In this he could have been overoptimistic. The possibility remained that he might be as cruelly disappointed as Dr. Kantrowitz by the sudden failure of the transplant. At best, there could be endless complications. Yet the mere performance of the operation set a milestone along the endless road of man's struggle against disability...
...including the celebrated centerfold of four-letter words and alleged account of the judge's own conduct in his Nov. 8 obsenity conviction of Avatar's 11th issue. According to that account, Adlow told bickering lawyers: "Shut up you c----and let's get this f----show on the road before the mammy-jamming sun goes down. . . . Ah b----, this is getting boring. I'm going home to read Avatar...