Word: terminus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earlier in the week, government landing parties had seized control of islands dotting the mouth of the Siak River, and captured the oil terminus of Dumai. On Bengkalis Island a rebel platoon watched interestedly as an army transport steamed leisurely up to the dock like an excursion steamer, tied up, and disgorged a file of government troops who sauntered down the gangplank like tourists. The rebel platoon leader surrendered and everyone sat down...
Murchison will build a 574-mile pipeline eastward from McAllen, Texas, gather gas from producers along the way and deliver it to Houston's Baton Rouge station. In turn, Houston will build a pipeline to carry the gas to a Dade County terminus at Cutler, south of Miami, with 682 miles of lateral spur lines running off the main stem to supply customers in every major Florida market...
...India the Maharaja of Jaipur was in his pink palace in his pink city, ready to greet American tourists, treat them to elephant rides and put them up in his guest house. In France's Dijon, knowing the U.S. tourists' unquenchable thirst for cold drinks, the Terminus Hotel has achieved a master stroke of plumbing: faucets in every room dispense chilled red or white wine. In Rome, bartenders will stir up a martini molto secco at the drop of a 500 lira note; half a dozen short order restaurants are pushing Southern fried chicken and barbecued spare ribs...
This problem of sex is complex, but its solution is simple. Sex is like a well-landscaped highway with hundreds of roadsigns and no turnoffs. Whether its terminus is heaven, hell, or just a wider highway depends upon your attitude and hers...
...plan was for the hikers to take a train to the canal terminus in Cumberland, Md. and walk from there to Washington, D.C. Two days and 43 miles after they left Cumberland, Bookman and fellow walkers arrived at the Woodmont Rod & Gun Club, where they were to spend the night and where a TIME courier was waiting to take Bookman's copy to the nearest telegraph office. This done, Bookman relaxed and followed a home-remedy suggestion to ease aching muscles: he drank a tumbler of heavy saltwater solution. The next night, by the time he had bedded down...