Word: railroaded
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...descends in the low salt marshes of Georgia. Savannah, by some gracious concession of the engineers, is only 14 miles away, a snoozing 19th century time capsule. At Mrs. Wilkes' famous boardinghouse, breakfast is served on 13 platters, and a man at the table says he works on the railroad...
...says, "that there is much of a railroad left." Sneak out of town on a back road, over the river, through the marshes of South Carolina, / the old road lined with abandoned "cabins for the night" and empty pickup trucks with hand-lettered signs still promising FRESH PEACHES. Back on I-95 the world narrows down to a river of concrete flowing between canyons of still leaves. Poles above the treetops display a shell, a star, double arches. The semiotics of travel...
LaLonde said he feared for his daughter's safety while she was hidden by her mother. He said he was concerned people in the "underground railroad" who kept Nicole from authorities might take some unspecified drastic action if he said anything to anger them, a situation he likened to authorities dealing with hostage-takers in Iran...
Smith, a graduate of Cornell and the Wharton School, started dabbling in distressed securities in the late 1960s while a trader at Manhattan's Bear Stearns. He made clients and himself a tidy profit on bonds issued by the bankrupt Penn Central railroad. In 1985 Smith left Bear Stearns to create the first company devoted to dealing in distressed securities. As a privately held firm, R.D. Smith does not report earnings, but the staff at its cluttered Manhattan office has expanded from eight to 35 in two years...
...friend who attended an integrated high school said he was friendly with Blacks in class but never associated with them after school. They lived too far away, he explained. In fact, the city residential areas are pretty much split by an invisible set of railroad tracks, the North side for whites, the South for Blacks...