Word: rails
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...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
...Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter. And his last moments were spent watching a play, Our American Cousin, in which an unsophisticated rustic journeys to Britain, where he gets the better of his highfalutin relatives...
...adjoining neighborhood, East Cambridge, is bounded by the Charles River, the commuter rail tracks on Warren Street, Broadway Street and the border of neighboring Somerville. According to Boothe, the development of this area on the Cambridge side of the Charles River is still guided by a 1978 city report dedicated to reclaiming "a very run-down area...
...Buchanan, the feminist movement is against the will of God. "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this...
...term "third rail" is political slang for issues that are sidetracked because they are politically charged and likely to deter voters. Sidetracking is common in American politics today, in issues ranging from health care to the federal budget. Does the sidetracking of crucial issues help or hurt voters in the long...