Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post as bishop of Rochester by Francis Cardinal Spellman, he also proved that he is still a quick man with the ad lib. Asked how it felt to leave New York City and settle among the greener pastures of Rochester, Sheen replied: "There is a certain road in Ireland where it rains on one side and is all sunshine on the other. It forms a perfect rainbow. The tears are in New York and the sunshine in Rochester for my rainbow...
When Jack Kerouac took the oldfashioned track west to never-neverland in On the Road, he became pie-eyed piper to a footloose segment of the postwar Beat Generation, advancing, it was assumed, into the future...
...months, might prove no exception. The freezing gales of winter swept through Peking, which is still swollen by an estimated 2,000,000 of the Red Guard youth who have been breaking windows and heads, renaming streets and chanting the lit any of Mao Tse-tung's narrow road to Socialist salvation. Over 100,000 of the Guards had the sniffles, or something more serious, from wearing only Mao-think as a muffler. No more monster rallies of the millions in open squares were possible until the warmth of spring...
...firing squad or a prison cell; but last week, in a surprise move, Tito dropped the government's criminal case and pardoned Rankovic for humanitarian reasons and because of his meritorious service in the past. As nothing else could have, that demonstrated how far along the road to reasoned mellowness Tito and Yugoslavia have come...
...stickier than a freshly glued spine at a book bindery. Established authors are apt to be stubborn, demanding, supersensitive, uneven in their production, and extremely difficult to hold on to. For example, Cerf did not want to publish Author Robert Crichton's second book, Rascal and the Road; he was convinced that it would not sell. Crichton insisted. Cerf published it, and sure enough, the book failed. Convinced that Random House had not done right by him-every author chronically suspects that his publisher doesn't spend enough money advertising his book-Crichton took his next novel...