Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transportation front, all is not so hectic. The New Haven Railroad expects a considered multitude on its Friday and Saturday trains but will add no special sections. Sunday will be a little tighter,. but there will be no problem in getting moved by rail...
...deathlike pall of silence which usually envelops the Soldiers Field press lounge raised briefly in the second period when Vern Miller (he weighed 295 after the Yale game in 1941) hoisted himself over the railing and out onto the narrow ledge to retrieve a wandering page of copy. It looked for a minute as if Vern planned a quick trip to the playing field, but he cased his form back over the groaning rail without mishap...
Metropolitan police got their first news of the crash at about 4:30 yesterday morning when Wilbur Smith, a baking company driver, notified them of the huge gap in the guard rail...
...Nationalist commander Fu Tso-yi badly off balance. A fortnight ago Communists had pushed up north of the Great Wall west of Tatung. When Fu's troops dashed westward to drive them back, another Communist force from the north came down in their rear to strike the rail line west of Peiping, threatening to sever it completely and cut Fu's army in two. If the Communists succeeded' in this, Peiping, Tientsin and all North China would be lost...
South of General Chen, the Communist offensive was in the hands of shrewd, slippery General Liu Po-cheng, "the one-eyed dragon." Maneuvering down the rail line toward Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow...