Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are no BUMS, CADS or DUDS on the road in Iowa, not even APES, HAGS or HAMS. These prefixes were all banned from the state's automobile license plates on grounds of taste by the Iowa Department of Transportation. But since new plates were issued last month, 130 irate motorists in Scott County have returned the plates because they bore the prefix GAY. One woman wrote: "I cannot be a single teacher and sport those plates." A traveling salesman complained that while he was in Chicago, his car doors were kicked in because of the plates...
...ruling eight-member People's Revolutionary Council and called on beleaguered Cambodians to return to the villages from which Pol Pot had driven them. "From Mimot to Korat to Molu and Strung," the new Radio Phnom-Penh soon announced jubilantly, "thousands of buffalo carts are on the road." Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 56. In perhaps the strangest episode of the week, the ebullient "god-prince" who once ruled Cambodia suddenly' emerged from the house arrest in, which he had been kept for three years by Pol Pot. Following a bizarre six-hour press conference in Peking, Sihanouk flew...
Amraie's laudable dedication to his job is matched by that of many of the workers, but for different reasons. The day after the NIOC manager delivered his tribute to his revolution-minded employees, an oil truck burrowed through a fierce blizzard on the Zagros mountain road from Khuzestan to Tehran. At the mountain hamlet of Zalian, the driver came to a stop. Inside a shelter, he performed the ritual Muslim ablutions. Then, barefoot, the worshiper stepped onto a spotless linoleum platform and began his prayers. Afterward, he explained that he was willing to brave the storm...
...daily circulation, the absentee owners prefer bland, trouble-free editorial pages. Only outside columnists are allowed to be noisy, querulous and opinionated. Even here, chain management usually dilutes the effect with a "spectrum" of opinion, in a look-no-hands neutrality between conservative, liberal and middle-of-the-road. Those among the columnists who are also in television develop a manner to go with the act-William F. Buckley Jr., arch and fastidious; James J. Kilpatrick, full of pretend bluster. When Kilpatrick takes the conservative side against Shana Alexander on CBS's 60 Minutes, their genial volleys are reminiscent...
Thought you wouldn't have to see me until the leaves turn green, huh? Well, you're out of luck, as I have been summoned from the land of number 2 pencils a semester early this year to make the road to clinical depression a little swifter...