Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries through a U.N.-monitored agreement to detect violations. Detection is now conceded to be technically possible by the AEC's Dr. Willard Libby. The degree of detectability, while not absolute, is such that risks of hidden explosions are certainly less than the risks of continuing along the road we now travel...
...fact is that Nepal, home of the famed Gurkha soldiers, has so far proved singularly impervious to outsiders. When India built Nepal a 78-mile road, some Nepalese concluded that Nehru was planning to take over the country-an attitude that India found as disconcerting as the U.S. often finds India's. Of the $12 million that Red China is pouring in, most has vanished down the well of government deficit, and Nepal has flatly refused to allow Chinese technicians inside its borders. As for recent U.S. aid-development projects in more than 1,200 villages, the ridding...
...front, a speed horse named Lincoln Road forced the pace. Tim Tarn, cleverly guided by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, a last-minute substitute for injured Willie Hartack, saved ground and came around the muddy track hugging the rail. Then, at the three-eighths pole, Silky turned it on. He exploded past two horses, and the crowd came alive. But the high rising scream stopped short. Silky suddenly ran out of steam-and the race was still up front, where Jewel's Reward was faltering but Tim Tarn was steadily closing on Lincoln Road. At the wire, it was Tim Tarn...
...author, a tall, stocky, heavily-freckled man of 54, hastened to add that the whole movie was made in good taste, and now has a B-rating from the Legion. "I supervised the filming myself," he said, reassuringly. He had not been happy with the way Hollywood treated Tobacco Road, still touring socialminded little theaters on a double bill with Grapes of Wrath...
...want a kewpie doll for my motorcycle," said a leather-jacket knight of the road, with a yellow grin...