Word: road
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through Manhattan's afternoon rush-hour snarl, through the Lincoln Tunnel (no radio reception there), down the New Jersey Turnpike to Newark Airport. All evening and most of the night, the tailing went on, from scruffy diners to B-girl bars, across Hackensack Meadows on Fish House Road, around rail-truck terminals. In the long hide-and-seek, the cars got separated, and the chief feared for Wally's life. But Wally played his part well. He later emerged with a carton of counterfeit drugs, evidence for which he had paid...
...machine tool on a hover pallet was easily pushed several feet by two men. By fixing a skirt around a 14-ton oil-storage tank at a military depot and pumping in air, hovercraft technicians were able to move the tank on a cushion of air across a road and a railroad line to a new location. A hover transporter, designed for Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board, has already been used to carry a 155-ton transformer over a bridge that otherwise would have failed under the load: a hover platform built into the transporter suspended the transformer...
...smell of kerosene permeates the tiny, corrugated-iron shack at the end of a dirt road in Kent. A kettle steams on the little black stove. Amid such bleak surroundings, a scrawny, brown-eyed girl of 20 named Bridget Poole and a bedridden old woman smile and laugh together. "People think it's strange," says Elizabeth ("Queen") Allen, 83. "Such a young girl living with an old lady like me. But it seems perfect ly natural to us two. I think that's be cause love is there...
...industrial area in Eastern Cambridge would have to travel through city streets, causing both congestion and noise. Moreover, the city wanted to embark on an ambitious urban renewal program, and it needed to have the highway's location fixed so it could plan the renewal projects around the road...
Moreover, with each passing year, the state's case became stronger. Sargeant could make the claim that the DPW had to move on the Inner Belt, or risk not completing the road by 1972 and thereby forfeiting millions of dollars in federal funds (the Interstate Highway program, financing 90 per cent of the Inner Belt, was scheduled to stop then...