Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ramapos, with his wife, who is also a composer and pianist, and their five children, aged one to 13 and ranging in talent from piano and trumpet through the cello. The nearest piano was an old upright in tiny Whiteside Church some miles away on a dusty country road. Gerschefski went there on foot each morning to work on his ballad, repay ing the parson on Sundays for the use of the piano by playing for the congregation...
When a 16-year-old Jewish boy named Alexander Rubovitz disappeared, someone remembered seeing him on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...
...quite all: a thousand yards up the road was a Russian outpost. Through field glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...
...play a pair of teams that are currently sharing seventh place in the Ivy League, it can either be ludicrous or produce a couple of tight, interesting contests. Anyway, the Crimson Varsity nine faces off against Princeton this afternoon and Pennsylvania tomorrow in their second straight weekend on the road...
...rough schedule," said the coach, adding that erstwhile outfielder Chuck Roche and lefthander Barry Turner will probably hurl today also. Roche, who has never pitched before a home crowd, showed a good curve ball in his appearances on the road...