Word: roading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marshals trained by the New Mobilization Committee, the march's sponsor, tightly controlled the crowd. Among their slogans was "Do it in the road...
...tour he is talking about launching in the next month or so. But the tour will be a lot different-slower, less frantic-from his tours before the motorcycle accident. In those days, says Dylan, "I was going at a tremendous speed . . . I was on the road for almost five years. It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things. A lot of things just to keep going, you know? And I don't want to live that way anymore...
...Lessard. Legros, a French-Egyptian given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool con man too, but back home he became the frightened victim of Legros's infidelities and rages...
Adam and I got a ride for about 20 miles up the Pike and extended our thumbs again. One car whizzed by and stopped to pick up a soldier in uniform who was standing down the road. We ran down to join the party, but the soldier closed the car door quickly behind him, and the car whizzed on. Adam was angry, but I understood perfectly. After all, what had we done for our country...
...shirt again, but feeling more confident. I yelled "Hello !" at passing cars instead of "Help !" A young couple in a Volkswagen pulled to the side of the road. But as I approached, the boy in the driver's seat started shouting at me: "You fucker! What the hell is the idea of acting like there's some kind of big emergency when all you want is a ride? I ought to kill...