Crossword clues for roadwork
roadwork
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The construction or maintenance done to roads. 2 exercise such as running and jogging done on the roads.
Wikipedia
Roadwork is a novel by Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, which is no longer in print. However, three of the four novels in that collection - Roadwork, The Long Walk, and The Running Man - have since been reprinted as standalone titles.
The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1973–1974. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns that both his home and his workplace will be demolished to make way for an extension to an interstate highway.
Roadwork is a live album by vocalist/keyboardist/saxophonist Edgar Winter and his band White Trash, a powerful revue famous for their fusion of funk, gospel, R&B, and rock 'n' roll. It was released as a double LP in 1972. Roadwork was the second of only three albums the band recorded together.
Highlights include Winter's virtuoso keyboard and vocal work, and the guitar stylings of Rick Derringer. The longest track on the album was the band's own version of the John D. Loudermilk song, " Tobacco Road", which lasted over 17 minutes, taking up an entire side of the album. Derringer contributed lead vocals to " Still Alive and Well" and " Back in the USA", and Johnny Winter made a special appearance singing lead on "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo". Louisiana native Jerry LaCroix, who shared lead vocals with Winter in White Trash, is also prominently featured.
The album was recorded before live audiences at the Apollo Theater in New York and in Los Angeles at the legendary Whisky a Go Go night club.
Usage examples of "roadwork".
Traffic was trying to maneuver around the roadwork, nonstop honkers everywhere.
It served only two farms and one private house, and because of its quietness it was a regular route for the Axminster horses on roadwork days.
With a free afternoon and evening ahead of him, his first instinct was to go home to Claudia, but a couple of miles from the flat, he got caught up in a traffic jam caused by some roadworks he had forgotten about, leaving him no alternative but to sit and wait.
It was sixty miles from Newbury to Cheltenham and on the way I chewed my fingernails through two lots of roadworks and an army convoy, knowing also that near the course the crawling racegoing jams would mean half an hour for the last mile.
The scene on deck was not unlike Cheapside with roadwork going on: two parties under the carpenter and his crew were making ready the places for the hypothetical bow and stern-chasers, and parcels of assorted landmen and boobies stood about with their baggage, some watching the work with an interested air, offering comments, others gaping vacantly about, gazing into the sky as though they had never seen it before.
We will begin roadwork immediately, O Lord, while we set up a ring in the tool-shed in which to learn the ropes, and we humbly beseech Your blessing on our enterprise and Your cooperation in keeping it from coming to the notice of Your servant's partner in holy matrimony, Trudi Bierman.
He knew that the construction companies who had contracted the extension were almost through with the actual roadwork for the winter, but he also knew that they expected to complete all the necessary demolitions (demolitions, there's a word for you, Fredbut Fred didn't pick up the gauntlet) within the city limits by the end of February.
He roared past, dodging back to his side of the road at the end of the roadworks, and powering on, eager to be there now.
I mean, that time of night, down there with all the roadworks and construction?
He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night, and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by.
Most of Polly's more recent friends were either stoned, in prison or chained to lumps of concrete in tunnels underneath the roadworks on Twyford Down.
It is certainly quite easy to forget that you are in charge of two tons of speeding metal, and it is only when you start to scatter emergency cones at roadwork sites or a truck honks at you as you drift into its path that you are jolted back to reality and you realize that henceforth you probably shouldn't leave your seat to search for snack food.
But the crane was really the masterpiece, because the crane was a roaring yellow beacon of light, a sizzling torch in the middle of the roadwork.
He could not recall ever seeing this little Air Force wimp out doing roadwork.