Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that any ideology supported by Einstein, Gide, Sartre and Camus is not lightly to be dismissed . . . TIME, however, with its one-track editorial policy seized the opportunity to reiterate its own brand of gobbledygook: "The only way to peace is a stony road which involves constant risk of war." Translated, this means: "Pledge allegiance to your nation, arm to the teeth, and be ready at all times to be led to the slaughter by your 'leaders' whenever diplomacy between sovereign states gets out of hand, as it does periodically...
Said brash Legislator Liu Pu-tung, a strong advocate of peace: "The road to peace has brightened." An army general read the terms. "Surrender?" he snorted. "They are asking far more than surrender." Most officials were cautious, but they thought the door to negotiation-on the Communists' terms, of course-might be opening...
Baker was found dying of a pistol bullet wound through the head early yesterday shortly after his jeep wrecked. He had been riding in the moonlight along a lonely dirt road, with pretty Thelma Griffin, a young divorced tavern car hop who had met him only a few hours before at a night club...
...sudden gale-driven snowstorm kept getting worse. Andy Archuleta could hardly see through the white swirl as he tried to keep his old Ford coupe on the drifted Wyoming road. When he was less than a mile from his home near Hillsdale (pop. 125), the car stalled for good. Andy used his head. He got out, dragged a fence post through the snow for fuel. Then he pulled off a hubcap, took it back inside .the car and lighted a little fire...
...Reds battled their way to less than half a mile from Kiessling's famous confectionery-restaurant in the old British concession. Shells screamed down on Roosevelt Road, one of the main thoroughfares. Two members of the Nationalist garrison were executed for spreading "false" peace rumors. Then, just as suddenly as it had all started, the Reds called off their dogs-for the time being...