Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back streets. They are immediately surrounded by laughing, chattering locals, many descending from homeward-bound bicycles. "Ni hao! Ni hao!" (How do you do?) Congeniality on such a scale can be slightly frightening, but it is authentic and spontaneous. Back in the hermetic bus on the way to the railroad station, Richard Lloyd Jones, president of the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, mops his brow and remarks: "This is how F.D.R. must have felt riding down Pennsylvania Avenue the day he repealed Prohibition...
Conrail's president, Richard D. Spence, quit last June. So far, Chairman Edward G. Jordan, who is chief executive officer, has failed to find a replacement. Jordan, 48, concedes that few railroad pros would want the job because "it's a high-risk situation...
...Your boat got a great start, and now you're going to get to that narrow railroad bridge at the same time as that turkey crew in front of you. Yell at 'em. Tell 'em to give you water. Yeah, be aggressive...
...Julius Nyerere, Angola's Agostinho Neto and Mozambique's Samora Machel-convened a meeting in Zambia to talk Kaunda into changing his mind. One of the problems both Zambia and Tanzania will face as a result of Kaunda's decision is that the Tazara railroad will be plunged into financial straits, making it difficult for the two governments to pay back a $450 million Chinese loan used to build the railroad...
...railroad imagery is appropriate, not only because so many of Cheever's characters are commuters. A good many others are suddenly discomfited by journeys of the body or spirit that they had not meant to take. In The Seaside Houses, a husband takes his family to the beach for the summer and begins sensing sour emanations from his rented house; before he realizes why, his marriage of twelve years is over. In The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, a man with money troubles is appalled to find himself burgling his wealthy neighbors and friends...