Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Throughout all history, whenever a society became hedonistic and on the road to decay, people have fallen for such take-no-thought-of-the-morrow nonsense. Only a part of wasted material is recoverable. The air we breathe is being polluted by fumes from automobiles and factories. Our rivers, lakes and ocean fronts are being destroyed by pouring into them human and factory wastes. One of the worst polluters is the paper industry. How can we return to the soil the chemically treated wood waste now going into our rivers...
...Whar's this road...
...they were removed at week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President hit the main highway and drove the ten miles back to the ranch...
...slugabed. Propped up on pillows, he labored over intelligence reports, diplomatic cables, and of course the federal budget. The word went out from the ranch that $1.1 billion-25% of the $4.4 billion total allocated-would be chopped from the federal highway program, an economy move that will delay road building in every state in the Union...
...part of the world that had gone no place since the Civil War, the directionless road of vaudevillian fame was far more apt as a symbol of Arkansas' dead-end economic and political condition than as a sampling of Ozark humor. For all its majestic forests and fertile bottom lands, its bountiful natural resources and the Mississippi on its eastern frontier, the state remained for long decades a kind of limboland...