Word: railed
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Leanin on the rail...
...King Jr. The state, Welcome said, had succeeded only in tarnishing the young man's reputation. She pleaded: "In this nation, you do not convict a person of murder or anything else by soiling him." In a final flourish, she placed a tiny thimble on the jury box rail. Said she disparagingly of the prosecution's presentation: "I leave this with you-a thimbleful of evidence, which is not enough for conviction...
...seven crashed past Soviet guards and into the U.S. embassy, seeking to go to the U.S. Pyotr Vashchenko, now 55, Augustina, and their three daughters, Lidiya, Lyubov, 29, and Liliya, 24, along with Fellow Believers Mariya Chmykhalov, 59, and her son Timofei, 19, had traveled 2,000 miles by rail from the Siberian town of Cherno-gorsk. Thwarted by Soviet intransigence since then, the dispirited Augustina and Lidiya have now stopped eating in a desperate bid to win world attention and shame the Soviets into relenting...
...domestic workers by 66% and increased wages for commercial and industrial employees by 23.5%. A year-end dry spell may cost the country as much as 30% of its current maize crop. A shortage of gasoline has been exacerbated by hoarding and by disruptions of pipe lines and rail shipments by the raids of antigovernment guerrillas who operate from neighboring Mozambique and are reportedly aided by South Africa...
...country's rail system suffers from other problems besides guerrillas. Last week railwaymen began returning to work after a seven-day strike that cost the country $14.8 million in export earnings. Zimbabwe also lacks locomotives, although that problem should ease some what in the months ahead. South Africa began returning 26 of its engines that it withdrew from the country last year, and 60 more new locomotives, bought from the U.S. and elsewhere, are due in March...