Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four photographs in the diagram that illustrates the cover story, and made several suggestions and corrections in the drafts of Chapin's drawing. It should be pointed out that Chapin brought some baseball credentials of his own to the task. He once pitched for the Pirates -the Park Road Pirates of Washington...
This block, bounded by Banks, Fiagg, Cowperthwaite Streets, and McCarthy Road was large enough for the entire House. Harvard acquired all the plots except that owned by Henry McNamara, a city worker. But his land, located on McCarthy Road, was crucial. "It was right where the dining hall was supposed to be," one high Administration official noted recently...
...compound, hands in the air, moving slowly toward where we expected the government lines to be in the darkness. We chanted 'Bao chi, bao chi [press, press], no shoot!' The reply was nervous giggles. Two sniper bullets whined by. We took cover on the edge of the road, then moved out again. Then all hell broke loose, triggered by which side it was impossible to tell...
...surprisingly higher in mental and physical health than the rest of Florida's prison population. As an ironic result, Gideon's adverse effect has been not on society but on the prison system itself. The exodus has created a shortage of inmates at Florida's 36 road-gang camps, forcing officials to man the camps with unreliable prisoners who had previously been confined in regular cells. As a result, the post-Gideon escape rate per 1,000 prisoners has jumped in Florida's road prisons. In March, a low-escape month, the rate has almost doubled...
Lady L. Careering madly through the countryside, a battered Daimler eats up both sides of the road, veers away into grassy fields, finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to the late Dowager Queen Mary. Well-wishers greet her with respect, for she is the progenitor of four generals, an admiral, a bishop and other dignitaries, several of whose names escape...