Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the second hearing the highway department would have to go and reconsider the proposed road, make adjustments in its design plans and come up with a new design. With all the legal points which could come up for appeal, opponents of the road could delay it for a long, long time," said Francis C. Turner, director of Public Roads...
...crowd of 100,000 gathered on the promenade of the channel resort town of Brighton, jostling for a look down the road that led from London. At last, the first car appeared. Then another and another. Finally, after eight hours, the last of some 250 pre-1905 cars to make the annual 50-mile "Old Crocks' Race," puffed, wheezed and whistled into town, piloted by a collection of antique-car buffs who consider themselves the royalty of the auto world. Appropriately enough, some real royalty was on hand for the proceedings: Monaco's Prince Rainier, at the wheel...
...first book Down and Out in Paris and London records in an oral-tactile way what it was like to be a dish washer, a tramp and a louse-ridden outsider. In The Road to Wigan Pier, he experienced the squalor of hopelessness while his pink pals were pitying the proletariat. At the end of his life, when he was dying of TB, he characteristically decided to treat it on a fog-swept island off Scotland's west coast. Evelyn Waugh visited him on his deathbed, and the reactionary Catholic gourmet saw a rare quality in the socialist agnostic...
...stereotypes are, of course, just images, but the images are not entirely exaggerated. For both cultural and historical reasons, the North is the least developed section of the country. The bulk of the Nigerian army before the crisis was Hausa; for the uneducated the army is a road to advancement...
Instead, they merely reviewed the same highway network with and without the Belt and concluded that the road should be built, he said...