Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's visit is a major step on the road toward mutual understanding between nations, where confidence replaces terror and hope takes over from despair. Mr. Nixon is only on his honeymoon of his term of office. We all hope he will sustain his efforts...
...Soviets made Ulbricht settle for much less than that. Though some 250,000 East German and Soviet troops took part in maneuvers near West Ber lin's road, rail and canal routes to the West, only road traffic came in for serious harassment. On eight occasions in seven days East German soldiers blocked the access highways for two or three hours; Soviet officers explained that Communist tanks were using the roads...
Inevitably, as French scientists and technicians have arrived, Kourou has mushroomed from a back-country village to a boom town of 5,000 people. Eventually the population will reach 50,000. In order to build launch pads, schools, power plant, sewer lines, dispensaries and 50 miles of paved road, laborers have already been brought in from Brazil, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Saint Lucia and so many surrounding places that 22 nationalities are now at work together...
...Road. Most of the time, though, Allen, his assistant ministers, and a handful of trusted aides are on the road, moving from meeting to meeting in a caravan of five huge moving vans brightly labeled "A. A. Allen Revivals." Advance men have prepared the way for them, enlisting local ministers, mostly from Pentecostal churches, to share the stage with Allen, rejoice in the cures, and give a little pitch for their own services. Allen's specialty, along with the cures, is the $100 pledge, and the hard sell is usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures...
Dimbleby dismissed much of the ceremonial as "a road show" and "a con." As Air Force One taxied in at London's Heathrow Airport, he observed that "President Nixon is no doubt adjusting his face and deciding whether it's more suitable to smile or look stern as he comes out. He is a man with a face for all seasons; so no doubt it will be the appropriate look." At one point, as the camera cliff-hung on the door of No. 10 Downing Street and the end of a Wilson-Nixon meeting, he sniped: "Of course...