Word: railroaded
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...land, which is bisected by the Massachusetts Turnpike, sprawls across 91-acres covered with concrete and railroad tracks...
...resounding BOOM BOOM BOOM. I tried to assuage the family's fears, saying it must be only one of the weekly U.S. military exercises. Suddenly, an earth shaking VAROOOM! rattled our flimsy home. I immediately jumped from my chair and started running through the rice fields and over the railroad tracks until I was standing on the shore with the water lapping at my slippers. Across lay Pearl Harbor...
...They (the weapons) could be in railroad cars, barges or refrigerator trucks. They are being kept on the move,? explained the former arms inspector. The arms expert says by keeping the weapons on the move, they make an attack by coalition forces more difficult. Furthermore, he explained they could be shifted around the country as ?conditions warrant...
...pushing for preregistration. “I haven’t been the one pushing for preregistration, although I’m delighted that we are finally going to go in that direction and eager to help it work. Our present system is simply no way to run a railroad,” he writes in an e-mail...
...Spiegelman says that the current encumbrances on the land—the railroad, commercial businesses, and residential tenants—are not worrisome in themselves...