Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patched with many a dubious compromise, Western Germany's new constitution had yet to prove itself; it was, nevertheless, a milestone on Germany's tortuous road to democracy...
...metropolis itself girded for siege. Along Nanking Road, through Shanghai's heart, khaki-clad troops put up wires for military phones. At the Central Police Station black-clad police cracked down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write...
...morning last week a blue sedan, with four detectives aboard, sped down a highway toward the Quebec town of Asbestos (pop. 8,500). A heavy truck pulled across the road and the sedan screamed to a skidding stop. A mob of striking asbestos workers sprang from roadside ditches and hedges. They ignored warning police shots, charged in, beat the detectives with lengths of pipe, chair legs and homemade clubs. For the first time in its three months' strike (TIME, Feb. 28), the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor had turned from its policy of nonviolence...
Midnight Mass. As night fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy...
...installing escalators on Harrods' ground floor. At the top of the 40-ft. moving stairway, he stationed an attendant to hand out free doses of smelling salts or cognac to all who had braved the trip. When he built his new store, between Basil Street and Braupton Road, a domed and gingerbready six-story edifice with 13½ acres of floor space, Burbidge shrewdly allowed for expansion by letting out the top floors as flats. Of the ten flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew...