Word: railroads
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...Texas sharecropper, Bradley moved West with his parents at age seven in a used Model T. His father struggled to support the family as a waiter and railroad porter and eventually separated from his wife. During the Depression the Bradleys had to accept public assistance, in those days the equivalent of welfare. A gifted runner, the 6-ft. 4-in. Bradley won an athletic scholarship to U.C.L.A. but quit school to join the city police department. After 21 years on the force, he used the law degree he had earned at night to start a practice. In 1969, following...
Just before the nation's schoolchildren were let out for a five-day holiday to join in the festivities, the resentment turned into outright violence. Sections of railroad were blown up by terrorist bombs outside Johannesburg and Durban. In East London, black nationalist guerrillas lobbed a hand grenade into a police station and raked the building with automatic-rifle fire. Two days later, other saboteurs set off an explosive device at a South African Defense Force recruiting center in Durban...
...essential to orderly commerce throughout the country. In March the Administration proposed to stop enforcement of nationwide Environmental Protection Agency noise standards, and congressional Democrats suggested that the rules might as well be repealed. But then business immediately began to protest. Reason: without national noise standards, interstate trucking and railroad companies could wind up being subjected to an impossible array of conflicting local standards from one community to the next...
...have there been so many options or persuasive pitchmen telling you where to park your money." While walking to the office every morning, New York Financial Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer found that interest rates posted outside banks were changing so fast they reminded him of "numbers inserted on the old railroad departure and arrival boards." Says Senior Editor George M. Taber, who edited the cover story: "When we were growing up, investment decisions were made for a lifetime. Now we are bombarded with a cacophony of business jargon about various accounts and funds, which has created vast confusion, even though...
...having so many literary models, I was trying to say that the world is so rich and inexhaustible that writings can never keep up with it." Perhaps not, but Calvino makes a manly effort. It all begins with that traveler on that winter's night in a railroad station. Outside, much fog. Inside, much steam from the espresso machine. Suddenly the reader stumbles into the kitchen realism of a Polish novel featuring an onion being fried by a young woman called Brigd. Franz Kafka would be right at home...