Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raids, said the Secretary, the U.S. in its 16 months of sustained air offensive against the North had accomplished three major objectives: 1) shoring up South Vietnamese morale, 2) "substantially" increasing the cost of infiltration for the Communists, forcing them to divert an estimated 200,000 workers to road-repair gangs, and 3) demonstrating to the aggressors that "as long as they continued their attempts to subvert and destroy the political institutions of the South, they would pay a high price not only in the South but in the North...
...from Vung Tau in their black pajamas and black berets arrived in Binh Phuoc, an inland hamlet of rice and manioc farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing out sewing needles...
...Other spelling problems posed by landmarks bearing Polish names: Bobrytski Woods, Pulaski Park, Grabreski Road, Kosciuszko School...
...growing number of highway deaths. If so, the suggestion was hardly necessary. Many states already employ other methods, such as the drunkometer breathing apparatus. Seventeen have so-called "implied consent laws." meaning that anyone who drives there agrees to submit to a test of some sort or lose his road privileges. And a bill about to become law in California will give drivers a choice between blood, breath or urine tests...
...mobile office is one of two on the road since March for John Han cock Mutual Life Insurance Co., the nation's fifth largest insurance firm. Using them, salesmen have so far written about $1,500,000 worth of policies for farmers and small-town businessmen. The man who conceived the idea had reason to believe that it would succeed. Robert E. Dye, 51, a John Hancock vice president, worked his way through the University of California as a Good Humor man, shifted the chocolate-coated sell from ice cream to insurance...