Word: tracklessly
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...first, eventually widened them and straightened them as part of a network of quagmire-pocked coach roads connecting major cities along the East Coast. Not until the late 1850s, when Congress appropriated $550,000 for three wagon roads, did anyone going West from the Mississippi River have anything but trackless prairies to drive on. From then on, road networks spread like spider webs across the U.S. In 1904 the U.S. Office of Road Inquiry took a national highway census that showed 2,000,000 miles of roads, just 250 miles of them paved...
...larger number of Czech buses, recently supplemented by Chinese-made trackless trolley, are generally overcrowded. People wait in orderly lines until the buses come and then scramble for the door, the conductor bodily pushing the last few persons aboard. Frequently the conductor makes the trip to the next stop hanging halfway ou the door, trying to force...
...occasional brave or intelligent man is no more in control of his fate than any of the others. After a while the reader begins desperately to wish that the author had not torn up all those streets in his model world: the novel is fascinating, brilliant, but exasperatingly trackless...
From the Pacific, Peru stretches across an arid coastal desert, rises into the icy Andean highlands, then plunges into the trackless Amazon jungle. Until recently, the country's torn and fractured political life reflected the old Indian name. Now, under the hand of a shrewd and popular new president, Fernando Belaunde Terry, 52, Peruvians have an opportunity to join the quarters into a united nation...
HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...