Word: railroaded
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...chilling tales of the nightmare that resulted in the death of 57 innocent travelers. Governments get tougher with terrorists, but will it do any good? Sabotage strands 10 million Japanese commuters. U.S. arms earmarked for Afghan rebels make dangerous detours in Pakistan. The perils and challenges of building a railroad through Africa's jungle...
...raise funds for many of its ventures, CITIC often turns to foreign capital markets. It has already sold bonds in Hong Kong, Japan and West Germany. China is, however, still locked out of American capital markets because it stopped paying interest on an issue of railroad bonds in the 1930s...
...camera had followed them into her bedroom to record the next half-hour. As it was, Vivien Leigh's next-morning smile remains one of the most graphically suggestive moments in the history of movies. Usually, directors were clumsier. In Picnic, Kim Novak and William Holden knelt beside the railroad tracks and kissed as a train thundered out of the tunnel. Elsewhere the censorship of the Hays office produced kisses that culminated in horses rearing, waves crashing, flames leaping. Or the camera would cut heavenward through sunlit trees...
...just awful," Loudilla Johnson told a shaken guest a lifetime later. "It sucks the shingles right off one side of the house." Kay Johnson volunteered that the wind recently removed two railroad engines from a nearby track. Loretta Johnson said it once blew her from the yard outside the farmhouse to the crest of a distant hill before she could get some purchase. Their father, Mack Johnson, who had been hauling wheat, said it was nothing compared with some of the blows the family had been through. At that point, the visitor resolved that if anybody in the house answered...
...PLEADED GUILTY. YOSHIAKI TSUTSUMI, 71, named by Forbes magazine as the richest man in the world in 1990; to insider trading and falsifying financial records; in Tokyo. Tsutsumi, former chairman of Japan's Seibu conglomerate, ran the railroad and real estate empire for 40 years before he stepped down last October. He faces up to eight years in prison...