Word: roades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...
...legislators should also remember that the MTA's reserve on land in West Cambridge expires in 1961. Moreover, Massachusetts Ave. will be widened this summer, and co-ordinating this work with construction of the subway would permit sharing of expensive relocation of the public utilities which run under the road. Just a look at the present situation in Harvard Square should convince even the economy-minded that any opportunity should be seized...
...officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build schools, houses and light industries...
...tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle of the Bog of Allen to be frightened to death by a lot of Liverpool seldom-fed bastards . . . No, be Jesus, I was from Russell Street, North Circular Road, Dublin, from the Northside where, be Jesus, the likes of Dale wouldn't make a dinner for them, where the whole of this pack of Limeys would be scruff-hounds would be et, bet, and threw up again-et without salt. I'll James you, you bastard...
...novel is centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should...