Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Momen's JV soccer 4, American Express...
Rightly or wrongly, there are many young Americans in foreign jails. This film was instrumental in starting negotiations between the U.S. and Turkey for the exchange of prisoners. On that basis alone. I consider Midnight Express to be the movie of the year...
...twice-weekly passenger express left on schedule, gliding smoothly out of the airy Chinese-built station at 6:40 p.m. Picking up speed (to a jaunty 30 m.p.h.), the train, imported from China along with everything else that went into making the Tazara railway, headed southwest toward its Zambian terminus, which, according to the timetable, lay 36 hours away...
Unfortunately, railway operations are no match for the African right of way.Three hours out of Dar, our express came to an abrupt halt; it had killed a young giraffe that had wandered out of the savannah. An hour was lost as the crew replaced a broken brake hose, while passengers crowded around the carcass to gawk and hack off chunks of meat. At Mkushi, one of the many Zambian bush towns that have been revitalized by the railway, we waited for two more hours under a broiling sun. Our engineer and conductor lost an argument with station controllers over whether...
...express finally chugged into its Zambian terminal eleven hours late. We were lucky at that. Freight trains normally require 20 days or more to make the round trip, owing to equipment failures, crashes, derailments and endemic small-scale pilfering. About 30% of the 2,100 freight cars, and up to a third of the locomotives, are out of commission at a time...