Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...currently debating whether or not to buy the Old Colony railroad line and thus extend its service further into the Boston suburbs. Should this purchase come about, the MTA would be virtually forced to move the present Cambridge yards to a new site, an operation which would entail considerable expense...
Heaviest single toll was in Pittston, Pa., where the ice-clogged Susquehanna River tore away a railroad bed, gnawed a soft. hole into the weakened river bank, finally ate through a ceiling of the Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s big River Slope Mine. Without warning, 45 anthracite miners were washed waist-high by tomb-cold rising water. While emergency crews dumped telephone poles, bales of hay and even empty railroad gondola cars into the hole to block the water, 33 miners threaded through abandoned tunnels and shafts to safety. The other twelve were presumed drowned...
Many of these are unconscious--for example, the boy who wrote of Moby Dick that "Ahab met his death at the hands of the whale," On orals especially, unwariness can be deadly. On an American History oral, someone gave the date for the transcontinental railroad as 1840. "Why did the Forty-Niners go around the Horn?" he was asked...
Cursing the rain, his day-old beard, his roommate, and John Donne, Vag shuffled out of Lamont. "It's a hell of a way to run a railroad," he noted in passing the construction at the center for Oriental Studies...
...slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness we want to copy," says Betsy). But having mastered style, both tend to disregard it. Says Penny: "Sometimes, when I am trying to slow down, I look like a Russian railroad track, five feet apart...