Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the Riviera like a horde of Goths. They crowded together in vast enclosures, with their tents squeezed close to each other, and paid from 4? to 30? per night for the privilege of bedding down. As the sleek cars sped by, campers stood at the edge of the road washing themselves-when there was water. For all the tourists this season the Riviera seemed cramped, and the resort towns are blending into each other to form an endless Côte d'Azur city. At no place is the coast wider than ten miles between mountains...
...from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors. In 329 B.C. Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots on the great Silk Road from Byzantium to China, and flourished as a brilliant seat of Arab civilization, only to be destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital...
After Tamerlane's death, violence and cruelty still bloodied the sands under warring Oriental despots, as Tartars, Mongols, Persians, Baluchis, Russians, Arabs and Chinese fought for supremacy. Western "unbelievers," plying the Golden Road to Samarkand, often ended in the slave auctions. Later, as the ground was disputed by Britain and Russia, captured Englishmen were beheaded, or tortured in deep "bug pits," crawling with scorpions and sheep ticks...
...Long Road. The acclaim in Moscow was no greater than that in the five other countries that the Philharmonic has visited so far on the longest tour in its history. The tour is also likely to go down as the most successful of all time. Opening its 17-nation tour in Athens in early August, Bernstein and the Philharmonic so moved the audience with Mozart's G-Major Piano Concerto that it had to play three encores, and a halt had to be called after Lenny explained: "We are very tired from a long plane flight." As he shuffled...
...Sense of God. Mydans' mind is itself a kind of camera. He writes in pictures that illustrate life in swift, touching anecdotes and impressions: the wedding procession that moved along an Italian road on foot while up ahead, U.S. troops were in deadly battle with a German rearguard; or the terrible day when he was caught in a Japanese earthquake and watched in horror as rescuers sawed through the arm of a pinned victim. He recalls with fine comic effect two G.I.s in top hats putting on a mock duel in the Italian moonlight, and he remembers the combat...