Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train rolled into Washington's Union Station, Harry Truman was wide awake and in high good spirits: he had proved to himself that the old road show still brought in the crowds...
...massive, yellow brick border gate, poured panicky peasants and deserting Nationalist soldiers, clamoring for haven from the advancing Reds. Black sentries from Mozambique allowed them to pass, first stripping the deserters of weapons. By week's end, over Pak-sha-leang, a Chinese fort overlooking the single road into Macao, the gold-starred Red flag of Communist China waved ominously...
Thirty white policemen soon arrived to disperse the pickets. The blacks retaliated by stoning white auto drivers on a nearby road. Prancing and chanting old tribal war songs, thousands of black men swept toward the location superintendent's office, set fire to a few buildings. Rioting continued into the night. Police and strikers exchanged gunshots. Three were killed, many others wounded...
...called on to make up any losses, had bid them godspeed with the air of men watching $50,0000 or more go up in smoke. Cagey Ballet Importer Sol Hurok had cautiously limited the Sadler's Wells tour to four weeks in Manhattan and five on the road, and had set Manhattan ticket prices, except for opening night, at a fainthearted $4.20 top. As it turned out, tickets became almost as hard to come by as an aisle seat for South Pacific ($6 plus scalper...
This week, as the company gave its last Manhattan performance and headed out into the U.S. and Canada, tickets for all their road-trip appearances (in Washington, Richmond, Philadelphia, Chicago, East Lansing, Mich., Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal) were already sold...