Word: railroaded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stuff of geek dreams. Now, at long last, vaporware has been made silicon. On my VII, I've received e-mail from my wife while riding under Manhattan ("Stop showing that thing in the subway!" she wrote. "You'll lose it...") and whined at editors while on the railroad whizzing to work. I've read real-time Long Island Expressway traffic updates while sitting in my office 23 floors above the ground--and, after ignoring them, bailed myself out with custom-made driving directions while stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I've looked up local movie listings, browsed synopses...
Four men reported to CPD that while they were partying next to the railroad tracks behind Dodge Chemical near Alewife, they were approached by a group of black and Hispanic males...
Kennedy recounted the group's first major battle, against Penn-Central Railroad. Members of the fishing industry in the Hudson River Valley contended that because of a burst oil pipe, Penn-Central had polluted the waterways. The group went on to win other court battles against corporations in the valley and was instrumental in lobbying for the passage of the nation's first large-scale environmental accountability...
DIED. BOXCAR WILLIE, 67, country singer; of leukemia; in Branson, Mo. Born Lecil Travis Martin, Boxcar was the son of a railroad man and grew up alongside a train track. In the 1960s he spotted a hobo who reminded him of Willie Nelson and was moved to write the song Boxcar Willie. After 22 years in the Air Force, where he logged 10,000 hours as a flier, he adopted the hobo persona of stubble and a crumpled...
...Pristina, the Kosovo capital, black-masked Serb police dragged Albanians out of their homes, force-marched them to a railroad station and packed thousands into locked trains bound for Macedonia. Says a senior State Department official: "The numbers are staggering. We have a huge humanitarian disaster on our hands." The roads leading out of Kosovo were trails of suffering. At least 500 elderly Albanians, too sick and weary to go on, were abandoned by the roadside on the way to Rozaje. On Friday NATO spokesman Shea reported that a six-mile line of some 25,000 refugees had formed...