Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sharks. Ten miles out of Port Sudan, a high wind drove Ghalib's craft with a splintering roar on to a submerged coral reef called Tarfaniya. Twenty-two pilgrims arid two sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...
...canoe earned its title in 1951 when it was damaged going over a waterfall on the Housatonic River on its initial trip. Last year it was driven against railroad pilings. Repaired and re-simonized this year, it was used and, for the third consecutive time, injured...
When the canoe smashed up this year, a Boston and Maine Railroad engineer stopped his freight train to watch the accident. Later, a mill operator came to the drenched members' rescue by giving them the sanctuary of his boiler room in order...
...actual action, however, did not start until April 26, 1952. The first group was arrested at 7 a.m. that morning for crossing a railroad bridge reserved for Europeans only. Another group of 50 volunteers were arrested for trying to enter the Boksburg location without permits. A third group of 54 were arrested at 11:30 p.m. that night for violating the curfew regulations. When the police halted them, the leader of the group said, "We are non-violent fighters for freedom. We are going to defy regulations that have kept our fathers in bondage...
...crimp in apartheid, the system of rigid racial segregation by which Prime Minister Daniel Malan hopes forever to separate 2,600,000 whites from four times their number of nonwhites. A Cape Town Negro named George Lusu had been arrested and tried for sitting down in a railroad waiting room marked "Whites Only." Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres delivered the majority verdict: "The State has provided a railroad service for all its citizens, irrespective of race . . . Segregation is [legal] but it could be and should be exercised without members of different races being treated with substantial inequality...