Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rail Road, Strasburg...
Skimming down a steep, snow-covered road at Camp David in Maryland's lovely Catoctin Mountains, Jimmy Carter was enjoying the brisk air of an afternoon in the woods when the tip of one of his thin skis caught beneath a crust of rough ice. The President of the United States went down hard. The consequences of this tumble were clearly visible when he returned to snow-paralyzed Washington the next day: an ugly purple bruise the size of a silver dollar over his right eye, several bright red scratches on his cheek, a puffy lip and a slight...
...second road to glory-and mediocrity-is to join the rank of management. This is typically accomplished by building a small empire. For lack of a better index, one's importance, and thus one's grade, is ultimately determined by the number of employees supervised, the number of publications issued, the number of projects undertaken. This of course leads to the creation of unnecessary work...
...launched a general attack, all the frontier posts are being shelled by heavy artillery," a Vietnamese provincial official announced. "Bloody fighting is taking place, human casualties are certainly heavy." Said a wounded 18-year-old Vietnamese soldier named Trien Van Mien, who staggered into town and fell in the road: "The Chinese are close by, they are everywhere...
...that Chinese artillery fired "chemical shells" at border targets. Backing up its ally, the Soviet Union accused Chinese troops of indiscriminately burning down villages and shooting women and children. Pravda, in a dispatch from Lang Son, alleged that a Chinese unit intercepted a civilian bus on a country road and executed all the passengers...