Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world, nor in the prewar way. Passengers will not be encouraged to stay ashore overnight in the Orient. And no more can they stop over anywhere they like, catch the next ship that strikes their fancy. Out are such favorite prewar diversions as getting off at Kobe, going by rail and small boat to Korea, then to Peiping to see the Temple of Heaven, then buzzing down to gaudy Shanghai to pick up the same Dollar liner they left at Kobe...
...good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point of bankruptey and then quietly succumbed to Peron's demand for minerals and collaboration. A simple and vicious application of an agricultural tourniquet to a democratic government for political...
...looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill. A noose dangled from it, well out over the dirt track. Few of the well-dressed South Carolinians in the cars lining the rail were old enough to recognize it. It was a truss for goose pulling...
...minesweepers closed in, radioing their position to shore stations and to a nearby group of destroyers. From the rail of the Arlosoroff the immigrants shouted taunts as 13 British sailors drew up alongside and swung aboard. The sailors met a wall of wild-eyed men & women, most of them young and strong. Disregarding the sailors' guns and tear-gas grenades the Jews waded in, overpowered the British sailors, flung them into...
...violent, muffled rattle split the still morning air over the English Channel. "That ain't no gun-testing," said Skipper Gregson, gripping the wheel of the tiny patrol boat and staring into the sky. Seaman Snowy, 16, whose eyes and ears were sharp, stood at the rail, cried suddenly: "There's a plane out there! Two planes." "Go on!" mocked Jimmy, engineer and third man of the Breadwinner's crew. "I can hear [a Messerschmitt]," Snowy shouted. "What was the other [plane]?" Gregson asked. "They both gone now," said the boy sadly. But, half an hour later...