Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...road at 4:30 or 5 every morning," one trash collector said, adding that he knew the early start violated city...
...heard new sounds. "They're on the roof," somebody yelled. Dixie 17, the American school, told us there were three truckloads of Pakistani troops on a side road "waiting to move." An embassy officer grabbed the mike. "This is the third floor of the American embassy," he yelled. "You have our permission to move those troops...
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MEANWHILE I HAD done what the unskilled do on such occasions. I helped move the wreckage, directed traffic, carried water to the injured, and in moments of respite, watched the skilled hover about the wounded. As the land had done on the road up to this point, the world of men crashed through the insulation. Away from the car, I walked up and down in the noonday desert heat, sickening at the sounds of pain, and straining as I joined the crowd cleaning up the refuse...
When the authorities came, the spell started to crumble. Utah highway patrolmen took over, moving people and their cars, organizing the transfer of the wounded to the county hospital. My doctor friend and I climbed back into the car. Within 20 miles the road was mine again, and once again I could use both lanes to swing around the curves...