Word: depot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...octogenarian Uncle Alton's memory. While Rosalynn scrambled eggs and cheese, Jimmy fried the breakfast ham. Shortly before noon, he shut off the water and electricity, turned down the thermostat, and left the house in the care of a maid and the Secret Service. At the train depot, the Carters waved goodbye to the 18-car Peanut Special...
...Behave yourself now," Jimmy Carter admonished his high school classmate Virginia Williams in front of the white clapboard railroad depot. "And if you get in trouble, don't call me." Then Virginia, her husband Frank and 380 other Plains folk boarded the 18 red-blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train...
None of those pressures seemed to be bothering Carter-yet. At a folksy post-election press conference at the railroad depot on Plains' main street, he rejected the notion that his victory was too narrow to permit him to act decisively as President. He pointed out, correctly, that 13 Presidents had been elected with less than 50% of the popular vote; he netted 51%. Moreover, in seven of the states he lost, he still collected 49% of the vote. Said Carter: "I'll be very aggressive in keeping my promises to the American people...
...workers. The capital of this jungle kingdom is Monte Dourado (present pop. 3,500), a sprawling new community of attractive bungalows, town houses and apartments. A Jari-built hospital staffed by seven doctors cares for the sick, and a Jari school educates the employees' children. A giant service depot stocks nearly $6 million worth of spare parts and equipment so that a force of 266 mechanics can keep heavy-duty machines busy building more roads, more industrial sites and ports, and even a roadbed for a 43-mile private railroad...
From the train depot, Gawber sees the house Hood has bombed as "a low cloud touched by fire" against the night sky. The explosion is distant, unrecognizable, a theatrical spectacular for the eyes. Gawber knows the explosion itself doesn't matter since the life is already dead. "He put his hands to his eyes," Theroux writes, "and tried to stop the tears with his fingers...