Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-light of early morning, Train No. 4034, bound for Paris, swung round the long bend outside the rail junction of Trappes, near Versailles. From the signal control box, high above the furrowed crisscross of rails that gleamed dully in the light of a swinging lantern, Signalman André Robert saw fire belching from the locomotive as it ground to a halt. Said he: "You see that man watering the engine-I happen to know he gets 6,000 francs a month. His board and lodging costs him 5,100 a month. He is ashamed to tell his colleagues that...
When he found himself at Stalag Luff I in Germany, Greening was "sort of worn out from the going over the Gestapo gave me." There was nothing at all to do, and Greening discovered that "from inaction the guys were going around the bend. So after a while I tried to work up a craft committee, but still some of them stayed in their sacks all the time...
Unscheduled Stop. In South Bend, Ind., sharp-eyed Bus Driver Virgil Hoover spotted his daughter straying farther from home than rules permitted, pulled to the curb and let his passengers wait while he got out and gave the five-year-old a sound paddling...
...Huenergardt, who both filed suits for divorce, were told by the court that because of the housing shortage they could share the same house if they didn't molest each other. Selene got the first floor and front door; Alfred the ground floor and back door. In South Bend, Ind., Angeline and John Nemeth, trying to divorce each other, were told by the judge that a divorce is granted only to an injured party; it was no go in their case, since both were at fault. In Oakland, Calif., Rosie Dawn was granted her divorce from husband Grey Dawn...
Donald A. Krider, of 806 E. Indiana, South Bend, a graduate of the James Whitcomb Riley High School...