Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
From Alpine to Pulpito, Mexico, is another stretch of road theoretically under construction; and another further southwest. In between, the Orient has two good divisions, the Mountain running through Chihuahua City, and the Pacific, wiggling to Topolobampo on the Gulf of California...
...Vatican organ, replied with a repetition of its accusations linking the Mexican executive's name with General Obregon's murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...
Nearing Portales, Mexico, last week, the passengers in a bus became frightened. They were on a straight road but the driver of the bus was making it go faster and faster so that it lurched across the highway. The passengers called to the driver; he paid no attention to their cries, but leaned lazily back driving with one hand, reckless and grinning. At last one of the passengers jumped into the seat beside him, pulled the emergency brake, stopped the bus and abused the driver who had been dead for about three minutes...
...know anything about the end of the road-we are a long way from any ending. But we shall get what we deserve. We all get what we deserve...