Word: roading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stokes began to match Taft detail for detail. He promised to combat the crime rate (up 14% last year) by increasing the police patrol-car force one-third, expand the airport with already available fill, eliminate a particular traffic bottleneck on Baltic Road ("the Baltic Blockade"), which, conjectured Stokes, costs a 20-year commuter 100 days off his life. He announced plans for an inaugural ball to raise money for clothing for children of relief families. Even with a skillful advertising campaign, a large and capable biracial campaign staff and a regiment of 2,000 door knockers, Stokes...
...young 'un in Sylacauga, Ala., which is just down the road a piece from Gantts Quarry, Jim Nabors was a regular cutup. He used to play tricks with his voice by hollering down drain pipes and talking through knotholes...
...preservation of the status quo but a concern "for the individual and his right to fulfillment." In an age in which "acceptance is given more and more to the concept of lifting men by mass movements and collective action," said Reagan, the universities above all should remember the "road from the swamp to the stars is studded with the names of individuals who achieved fulfillment and lifted mankind another rung...
...company plans to start the year all over again, with a "second introduction" of its 1968s. There was one casualty: because of strike delays, Lincoln's new small-sized Continental Mark III, which was originally supposed to appear in February, will not be able to hit the road until next spring...
...Times They are A-Changin'. Dylan's songs hadn't broken out of the coal mines ("Hollis Brown"), the transatlantic love ("Boots of Spanish Leather"), the simple, indignant protests (Medgar Evers's death). Although there was a diamond highway with nobody on it, he held to the crowded folk road, the old-style rambling around. On the back of the album, however, in "11 Outlined Epitaphs" he announced the passing of that earlier Bob Dylan. Guthrie was dead. Dylan was free, "without ghosts/by my side/ t betray my childishness/ t leadeth me down false trails/ an maketh me drink from...