Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military medical teams; and the Allies' slow but steady attempts to create a political infrastructure in the villages and provinces. Moreover, for all the gloomy headlines, the political situation is not without hope, and the Sept. 11 elections may well put the country on the long road to genuinely representative government...
Predestined Harbor. For shiftless, Kentucky-born Ben Purnell, the road to Benton Harbor was a circuitous one. After traveling around the U.S. in the 1890s in a carnival wagon, he landed in Detroit and made off with 200 followers of the Israelite faith founded by 18th century English Fanatic Joanna Southcott. Because the Lord was "bent on harboring people," Purnell decided that Benton Harbor was their predestined home...
Ronald Alford, 24, was having a hectic day. Illness and vacation had left him the only reporter in the Memphis bureau of the Associated Press. That morning he had been trudging a dusty road south of the city covering James Meredith's march into Mississippi, but at 1:30 he had returned to the unmanned office. Now the news was coming through that Meredith had been shot, and Alford was in a bind...
During the 25,000 miles or so of its whirling life, the automobile tire bites the road in hundreds of thousands of stops, gets scraped by sidewalks and bruised by potholes, and runs long and hard at temperatures as high as 275°. Through all this, the tire is generally ignored until the day it goes flat. Now tires are getting a new kind of attention...
...rubber companies are rolling out a whole batch of new tires that have some of the most important changes since the introduction of rayon cord (1938), nylon cord (1947) and tubeless tires (1947). Compared with existing tires, they wear longer, are less likely to blow out, grip the road more strongly, and keep their shape better...