Word: roadways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assault boats suddenly put out a series of bridges, including three at El Qantara in the north-central sector of the canal, three more at Ismailia and another three at Suez on the southern end. Some of the bridges were old-fashioned pontoons lashed together and topped with roadway; others were a modern type put down by Soviet-developed amphibious vehicles that laid ladder-like sections as they chugged across the canal. Soldiers went across in small boats and rafts at points where no bridges existed. The infantry troops were backed up by airplanes, artillery and small waves of paratroopers...
Silent Movie. Cars come and go down the roadway-trainers on their errands, exercise boys and jockey agents going from barn to barn, owners arriving to see their horses work out. But the cars move slowly, with scarcely a sound, partly because this is the code of racetrackers, partly because those unfamiliar with the code find their progress slowed by high bumps built into the roads and a succession of signs that read YIELD: HORSE CROSSING...
...present, the only Cambridge ordinance that penalizes hitchhikers is a jaywalking law, which prohibits standing in a roadway to solicit a ride. The current fine is $1 for the first, second, and third offenses, and $2 for the fourth offense in a year...
...crowd of about 100 demonstrators picketed peacefully until shortly after 3 p.m., when the non-striking workers began to leave for home. Several demonstrators then sat down in the roadway in front of the cars, while others stood in the parking lot's entrance...
...towers were built, a cable could be tugged across the river and then hoisted above them. Progressively stronger cables and at last a catwalk followed. From there it was comparatively easy--stringing the rest of the cables from tower to tower, dropping steel suspenders from the cables, building a roadway on the steel suspenders--but it took seven more years. That a bridge could be built on such a scale was astonishing. That it should rise triumphantly above the graft, conspicuous consumption, and suffering that had once been the American dream--and such a beautiful bridge--that is the sort...