Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. With the vote the formal frontier of U.S. defense leaped across 4,000 miles. It now ran from the windswept tundras of Norway, across the low-lying plains of The Netherlands and Belgium, down the scarred Rhine valley to a dust-hot road barrier outside troubled Trieste...
From Berlin, a TIME Corespondent cabled: "Like a swain who cannot bring himself to forget the girl who jilted him, the Russians are still unable to abandon completely the idea of blockading Berlin. Theoretically, rail, road and water traffic between West Germany and Berlin have been open for two months. In fact, hardly a week has gone by since the formal lifting of the blockade without Russian chicanery arbitrarily disrupting services somewhere along the line...
Stucco on the Lawn. Called Kilometer 47 (because of its distance from Rio), the school spreads over 4,900 acres straddling the road to São Paulo. Its main buildings (yellowish stucco and red tile roofs) are set on spacious lawns landscaped with pools, palms and gravel driveways...
Died. Beauford Halbert Jester, 56, Texas' middle-of-the-road Democratic governor (since 1947); of coronary occlusion; in a Pullman berth while en route to Houston...
...Bearcat (see cut). Although Crosley estimates that not more than one out of 100 owners will use the Hotshot as a racer, he has made it easy for them to do so. Windshield, lights, bumpers and top can be stripped off in a few minutes, readying the car for road or track racing. Its overhead-valve engine, already built for a 7.8 compression ratio (the highest for any U.S. passenger car), can easily be souped up to 14-to-1 compression requiring a very high-octane fuel...