Word: road
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...Howard told me to be careful. He said it would sound like hell if they had to name a building Fall Hall." As the patrol inched toward a helicopter pickup point, the Marines fanned out in a protective arc. Fall was walking slowly along the edge of a dirt road talking with a combat photographer when his boot came down in a high clump of grass. The Marines saw his body lift into the air even before they heard the explosion. Though a Marine patrol had passed safely through the area only seconds before, Fall's boot had come...
...foreign ministers of the 20 countries involved reached final, formal agreement on the time, place and agenda. The meeting will be held April 12-14 at the sunny Uruguayan seaside resort of Punta del Este. The agenda will include discussions on joint inter-American programs for electric power development, road building, dam construction and other internal improvements; the expansion of industry and trade; economic integration through a Latin American common market; and the need for less emphasis on Latin American spending for military purposes and more on spending for scientific research, public health, education and agriculture...
...Crimson has looked respectable even in defeat. It has lost its last three matches by only ten points -- to Springfield, 20-18; Princeton, 18-12; last week, to Brown, 18-16. Harvard's three wins came early in the season against Dean Junior, M.I.T. and Columbia -- all on the road. The best it has managed in three home matches is a 15-15 tie with Penn...
...Being a journal of record is the quickest road to not being read," Bethell notes, "and we can't afford that. We try, for instance, to avoid a glut of alumni notes. They get readers to subscribe, but they can fill half the magazine unless you weed out the trivia. We tend not to print the 'I-ran-into-Charlie-the-other-day-in-the-men's-room-of-Grand-Central-Station' variety...
Monday's public hearing will mark the third time in the last six years that Harvard has asked the Council to close a road to accommodate University building plans...