Word: vehicular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentiments were those of any East European Communist satellite. "Kennedy is the pirate President of the 20th century," cried the Havana radio, complaining hysterically that U.S. aircraft had "fired shots" while flying past the south Cuban coastline. In a familiar Berlin-style reprisal, the Castro regime halted all vehicular traffic into the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Base, forcing the Navy to pick up Cuban base employees at the gate and transport them to their jobs; next, Castro might try cutting off the base water supply from the Yateras River, 20 miles away. More and more, Cuban propaganda stressed what...
...engineer Ray built his first bridge, then he built the first vehicular tunnel in Cuba. After that he was Project Manager for the Havana Hilton Hotel. "The first job cost a million dollars; the tunnel was $6 1/2 million job; the Hilton project was $20 million. I say this so you see the progress...
...another striking difference was evident. Recently arrived Yemenites who died of TB, or were killed in accidents amid the unfamiliar vehicular traffic, proved on post-mortem examination to have virtually no atherosclerotic heart disease. Yet this was the greatest killer among the Ashkenazim, Jews who had migrated to Israel from middle and northern Europe...
...Anchorage, the settlers could see breathtaking Mount McKinley and the whole Alaska range. Moose tracks appeared in the slushy tops of the frozen lakes, and there were beaver tracks and the tracks of the beaver trappers. Running water broke through the melting surface of the wide, twisting Susitna, and vehicular traffic was warned to keep off. The yawns of spring were cracking the frozen vastnesses of Alaska...