Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Islam's missionaries to Holland, however, have not had easy going. First schooled in their own soft Urdu, they had to learn the harsh Dutch language. Then they tirelessly passed out leaflets (20,000 a year) at big city railroad stations, beaches and among downtown shopping crowds...
Standing before his middleaged, white-collar audience in the green-walled Café de Kroon, Bashir struggles valiantly to answer such questions as: "How do Moslems treat their enemies?" A railroad worker wants to know, "How about Sundays?" and a shaggy-haired schoolteacher declares with Calvinist indignation, "Your Ahmad hasn't realized the importance...
...sleek automobiles rushed rich mainland occupants to recently acquired business and government offices. Well-groomed Chinese women cluttered restaurants and shops, jammed sidewalk money-exchange booths, displaying rolls of crisp U.S. dollar notes. Thousands of Chinese soldiers, with the defeat of Shanghai just behind them, camped in the cavernous railroad station or roamed the streets. Civilians and soldiers (1,500,000 in number) were refugees from the communism now flooding south across China. They were also a troublesome burden to a people who wanted their island home for themselves...
...General Electric Co.'s Erie works this week, railroad men will get their first good look at a new locomotive. It resembles a diesel on the outside, but is radically different on the inside. The engine, developed over a five-year period by G.E. and American Locomotive Co., is a gas turbine-electric locomotive, the first of its kind in the U.S. It was ready for test runs on the Union Pacific Railroad...
...more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger) had been troubling Richard for some time. He was the stranger who often walked just a few feet ahead of him on his way to the railroad station-the man to whom Richard always wanted to speak, but never dared. Later Richard suspected him (correctly) of having delivered the mysterious sealed manuscript to his office. After their first formal meeting on Neighbor Sharpy Cullen's terrace, Richard encountered That Man many times-in his home...