Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flickering light on an Algerian coastal bluff. It was the signal to row ashore, that the way was clear. W'hen Clark and his team reached shore, Bob Murphy was on hand to greet them: "Welcome to North Africa." That day, in a red-roofed villa on the road to Algiers. Clark and Murphy ate bread, jam and sardines, plotted the North African invasion with French leaders brought by Murphy. Suddenly the telephone rang, followed by the cry: "The police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped off in time's nick, Mark Clark...
...practicing the world's oldest profession, but one of its newest; she was collecting contestants for TV's talent-hungry quiz shows. Once they heard her pitch, the people Diane propositioned probably figured that they were headed toward quizdom's glory. Few realized that the road to the big payoff would be a maze of interminable interviews and pseudoscientific character analyses...
...topnotch builder last week to straw-boss its 41,000-mile interstate-highway program. In Washington, Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy chose Ellis Leroy Armstrong, 44, a nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncussing Mormon who heads Utah's Road Commission, to be his "executive vice president" and the man responsible to oversee actual construction. As commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Armstrong not only must pour the concrete, but also smooth the waters as conciliator between the states and the Government on history's biggest public works project...
...Lawrence Seaway project, another job that required low-pressure diplomacy to resolve the conflicting desires of the U.S. and Canada. Last year Armstrong took a pay cut of almost 50% to go home to Utah and a $14,000-a-year job as director of the state's Road Commission. Utah was lucky to get him. Armstrong lifted Utah from 48th to 34th among states in getting its share of federal highway work under way, increased the amount of contracts let by Utah almost fivefold. Of his new $17,000-a-year federal assignment, Armstrong says: "This...
...reporting, The Road to Wigan Pier is unmatched in the set pieces of industrial sociology. In the black country, Orwell first took lodgings above a shop that sold nothing much but "black tripe" (the "grey flocculent stuff" and the "ghostly translucent feet of pigs" were kept in a beetle-infested cellar). To get his story, he wandered in and around Wigan (population then a little under 87,000), and the account of these wanderings still makes the reader feel that he has been dragged heels first through a municipal garbage dump. Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret...