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Word: roading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROAD was our school, it was our survival... but you can push your luck too far. The road has taken some of the great ones--Hank Williams, Janis, Otis Redding... We've been playing on the road for 16 years...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Medicine Show Packs Up | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...long as you are able to play or sing. All you have to do is remain popular. The Band's decision to hang it up, at least to hang it up in public, seems even more laudable. The group may well have been sick of the road, as Robertson indicated, but it isn't easy to give up your bread and butter...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: The Medicine Show Packs Up | 6/6/1978 | See Source »

...American Navy officer, code-named "Ed" by his Soviet contact, slowed his car on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway near Woodbridge. On the side of the road, at a prearranged spot, he nervously dropped an orange juice container stuffed with documents describing the U.S. Navy's top secret method of tracking enemy submarines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sloppy Spies | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Recipients of honoraries must be present at Commencement to receive their awards. That rules out Don Zimmer, who is off with the Bosox on a road trip...

Author: By Bro. IGNATIUS Dooley, | Title: Honorary Degree Speculation Grows | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

VISITING LUBUMBASHI now, one can still see the scars of the civil war, although Mobutu has nominally established independence for a united Zaire. Houses still lie in ruins and roads are a shambles; at the university, the frame of a three-story building, originally meant to be a library, stands unfinished and rusting. All the university students were drafted and placed under military discipline when they protested Mobutu's policies. Most of the rest of the city consists of mud huts, where the people eke out a living on the edge of starvation. And corruption is a way of life...

Author: By Neva SEIDMAN Makgetla, | Title: "Massacres" and a New Cold War in Zaire | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

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