Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally, we must be disabused of the thought that a competitive enterprise economy can be free of all loss, failure and disappointment, and that Government can take all the bumps out of the road of business...
...nothing to eat but cactus, and after five days my mother said she could not go on," recalled Ernesto da Silva, 17, sitting in a rocky field in the drought-burned eastern state of Pernambuco. "She was a widow but not old. She lay down by the road and told me to go. A man gave me 40? for a day's work. I bought food and hurried back to my mother, but when I got there she was dead...
When hand-stoked coal drove Old 97 down that mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville, the brawny fireman was as essential as the engineer himself. Sweatily, he swung the heavy scoop between the clanking tender and the hellish firebox, pausing only rarely to rest his arm on the ledge of the left-hand window. But Old 97 and almost all the other steam locomotives have given way on U.S. and Canadian railroads to unsung diesels...
...When he turned into the stretch at Pimlico's horse park. Calumet's
dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...Daisies. Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters at the rate of 500 a day; out flowed free books. By the time the mails had poured in some 3,000 claims from winning bettors, the publishers nervously stuck a finger in the dike...