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This road was cut during the war and as of July 2007 was not in use south of Walikale.
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The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.
In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;
And now the redcoats were coming, and the gunfire was a part of the dust cloud on the road to the west of us.
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.
I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.
While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.
There was a clump of trees that appeared to provide cover right up to the road, and the shouting and gunfire never slackened.
The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.
It was a Cadillac, black grayed with the dust of the road, its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of it would be cool and unwrinkled.
At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.
road and cut
The chief Roman road linking the provincial capitals of Cologne and Mainz cut right through the fort where it joined the fort's main road ( now, Römerstraße ).
After the Marshall Plan, the introduction of a new currency to Western Germany to replace the debased Reichsmark and massive electoral losses for communist parties in 1946, in June 1948, the Soviet Union cut off surface road access to Berlin.
Rommel ordered 90th Light to resume its advance, requiring it to cut the coast road behind 50th Division by the evening.
The 90th Light was then to veer north to cut the coastal road and trap the defenders of the Alamein box ( which Rommel thought was occupied by the remains of 50th Infantry Division ) and the Afrika Korps would veer right to attack the rear of XIII Corps.
The success of the currency reform angered the Soviets, who cut off all road, rail, and canal links between the western zones and West Berlin.
The World Bank, who view the cancellation of those projects will ruin Haiti road Infrastructure Concise into creating, FER ( Fond d ’ Etretient Routiers ) in 2003, this was a way to cut down corruption, get local company involved, and not stopping those works because of political Contestation.
Instead, Pei ordered a hole cut through a nearby mountain, connected to a major road via a bridge suspended from ninety-six steel cables and supported by a post set into the mountain.
And the Macedonians, who had docked closer to the city anyway, cut the rest of the fleet off outside the city gates, and on the road leading to the city.
The Germans ' late attempt to blow the road bridge was probably foiled by a local Dutch resistance hero, Jan van Hoof, who is said to have cut the wires to the bridge.
In some circumstances, taxes are also used to enforce public policy like congestion charge ( to cut road traffic and encourage public transport ) in London.
The Monschau-Düren road was quickly cut, but both regiments were slowed by defenses and suffered significant casualties: the 60th ′ s 2nd battalion was reduced to a third after the first day.
As the vice chairman of the commission, in 2005 along with chairman Bobby Shriver, he led the movement opposed to a six-lane extension of California State Route 241, a toll road that would cut through San Onofre State Beach.
If the sound editor wants to communicate that a driver is in a hurry to leave, he will cut the sound of tires squealing when the car accelerates from a stop ; even if the car is on a dirt road, the effect will work if the audience is dramatically engaged.
The construction of Rome's ring road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA, in 1951 caused the Appian Way to be cut in two.
In 1843 settlers cut a wagon road over these mountains making them passable for the first time to wagons.
Shovels, crow bars, picks, hoes, mattocks, saws, hammers, axes and hatchets were used to clear or make a road through trees or brush, cut down the banks to cross a wash or steep banked stream, build a raft or bridge, or repair the wagon.
Verdun's peacetime rail communications had been cut off in 1915 and thus the city and its ring of forts were depending on a single narrow road ( the future " Voie sacrée ") and a local narrow-gauge railway ( the " Chemin de fer Meusien ") to be re-supplied.
The road cut across southwestern Pennsylvania, heading southeast for about before entering Maryland.
The missions of the 187th were to cut the road north going to China, preventing North Korean leaders from escaping from Pyongyang ; and to rescue American prisoners of war.
When engineers cut a road up the western side of this draw, it became the main route inland off the beaches.
the main difference between Trial trenching and watching briefs is that trial trenches are actively dug for the purpose of revealing archaeological potential whereas watching briefs are cursory examination of trenches where the primary function of the trench is something other than archaeology, for example a trench cut for a gas pipe in a road.
By late March 1948, the vital road that connected Tel Aviv to western Jerusalem, where about 16 % of all Jews in the Mandatory Palestine lived, was cut off and under siege.
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