Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been realized. When Skelm submitted for approval its two-tier town center with suspended roof, the Government was afraid it would not work. It hired a structural engineer to see if the center would really stand. After months, no decision has been reached. In Runcorn, a separate road system for the minibus proved too expensive so the buses will have to run partly on regular streets...
Parts of the list that most people wil miss appear to be compiled in stream-of-consciousness style. "Tobacco Road" follows "Poor Side of Town" at 208; "California Girls" and "California Nights" are linked at 194, behind "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Blue Velvet;" and the Critters "Mr. Dieingly Sad," No. 156, is in its appropriate follow-up position to their previous hit, "Younger Girl...
...retired from a 20-year stint in the Navy, he decided that his four singing, drumming and guitar-playing sons were ready for more than charity shows and family concerts. He teamed the boys up with their pert "mini-Mom," Barbara, took on the other two Cowsill sons as road managers and sound engineers, and along with a four-year-old baby sister set off into the professional music world. Bud enforced taut Navy discipline: the kids had to keep up with their studies, practice two hours daily to build up a repertory of 500 rock 'n' roll...
...long-blocked road to Intra's resurrection finally opened after British auditors found that the bank, though short of cash, was so loaded with gilt-edged investments ($217 million worth) as to be a sound long-term venture. A new Cabinet under Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami fired a committee that was irreconcilably split over whether to salvage or liquidate the bank, named another that dickered with Kid der, Peabody. The key to the rescue deal was winning the consent of Intra's major creditors, notably that of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Jaber al Ahmed as Sabah, whose countrymen...
...five such houses, Boston four, Detroit eleven, Los Angeles twelve and Manhattan 16. The growth of the nudie drive-ins has created a new menace on the highways: near Dallas, one drive-in owner was ordered to build a view-obstructing wall after three passing motorists careened off the road while gawking at the girlies. Estimates of the yearly haul from these ventures in the skin trade run as high as $60 million. One classic nudie, The Immoral Mr. Teas, which cost a mere $24,000 to make, earned over...