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Word: highway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moving and could not be penetrated. When the initial press slackened, the police started to force their way through. They found the first body at 7:45. In all, there were eight injured and eleven dead-seven men and four women. Three were high school students, another was a highway worker. One was Connie Burns. According to a coroner's preliminary report, they had died of suffocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Stampede to Tragedy | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Just how great are Cambodia's needs was apparent as we drove along the road from the airport into Phnom-Penh. The broad two-lane highway was clogged with trains of bullock-drawn carts, people weaving to and fro on bicycles, and trucks, some of them inherited from the long departed U.S. During the past month, a tide of refugees from the famished countryside has swelled the permanent population of the city from about 10,000 to 30,000; approximately 70,000 others are encamped just outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: There Is Nothing, Monsieur | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Erik Estrada, 30, heartthrob highway cop in NBC-TV's CHiPS series; and Joyce Miller, 39; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...state will grant each town the necessary amount of money to implement the law, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Public Works said. The Federal Highway Administration will reimburse the state for much of the money, he said...

Author: By Jonathan D. Rabinovitz, | Title: Right-On-Red Comes to Boston | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...intervals. At week's end, however, the plan had to be scrapped, when it was discovered that the first 5,000 refugees were too exhausted or too ill to walk the seven miles to the camp. Thai soldiers escorted the Cambodians half a mile to a red-clay highway, where buses and trucks, equipped with mattresses for the sick, were waiting to take them to Khao I Dang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Pol Pot's Lifeless Zombies | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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