Word: railings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LONDON_Leaders of Britain's National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) called off a day-old national rail strike yesterday after their stoppage brought transport chaos to London, already gripped by a week-old-subway shutdown...
...blind pop celebrity in a bright red dress whose comings and goings are recorded for posterity-or at least the evening news-by the watchful electronic media. Nick-who changes costumes to fit Tom's changing impressions of him-commits suicide spectacularly by stepping on the third rail in a deserted London underground station called Angel...
Overall, the impact from Braniffs failure was not expected to be big. Braniff carried only 3.5% of U.S. air passengers. No comparison could be made with the monumental wreck a dozen years ago of the Penn Central Railroad, which was one of the main arteries of American rail traffic. By week's end only two of Braniff's routes were not being served by other carriers: Dallas-Wichita and Dallas-Omaha. Other airlines are expected to take them over soon. -By John S. DeMott Reported by Mark Seal and Michael Weiss/Dallas
These concerns did not trouble millionaire rail-road financier Jacob Henry Schiff in 1903, when he presented Harvard with its first Semitic collection and a building to put it in. Schiff, who hailed from one of Europe's most distinguished Jewish families, invested his money in a private war on anti-Semitism, firm in his conviction that "the gaining of a thorough knowledge of the civilization of those who have been before us means a better humanity and happier conditions for ourselves, and even more so for those who come after us." Harvard President Charles W. Eliot graciously accepted...
They gossip, rail at each other, make up, and follow murky, unparallel lines of thought of the "Who's on first?" variety...