Word: railings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five days of hesitation, in evident fear of a people who so recently had proved desperate and courageous enough to stand against Soviet tanks, the Reds at week's end abruptly shut off all highway and rail traffic to Berlin from five East German provinces. That effectively halted the hungry invasion of West Berlin: lines dropped to a trickle. But East German railroad men reported angry mobs at stations all along their route, storming the ticket offices, and clashing helplessly with armed troops and club-wielding cops...
...Parsons gripped the dock rail tightly as the verdict was read: not guilty because of unsound mind at the time of the crimes. R.A.F. wives wept...
AIRLINES may soon be carrying up to 85% of all first-class mail, if Post Office experiments later this summer pan out. It is still cheaper to send mail by rail than by air (36? v. 52¾? an air ton-mile), but with a big volume to haul on late night flights the airlines may be able to cut their rates enough to underbid the railroads, which are asking a 45% increase for carrying mail...
...work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social gospel that snail make entrenched evil tremble, rationalized selfishness seethe, organized greed rail, but shall make the peoples of the earth rise up to call us blessed...
Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...