Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under the arching roof of Nanking's new railroad station thousands of unwashed, penniless students from Honan and Shantung are camped on the dirty cement floor, waiting for a train to resettle them somewhere below the Yangtze. One plays a forlorn tune on a two-stringed Chinese violin. Others huddle beneath filthy grey quilts, while streams of noisy, heavy-laden travelers flow around them. The pump is their lavatory. Their guardian, the Education Ministry, can feed them only one rice meal daily-usually around midnight...
Nanking's mood fluctuated sharply with every report from the front. Early in the week hungry, hopeless mobs looted 50 rice shops whose owners refused to accept paper currency. From the police station just opposite one shop, a few white-helmeted guardians of law and order watched without interfering. "What shall we do?" asked one. "The government must not stand in the way of its hungry people...
Though both Nanking and Shanghai were temporarily quiet, the situation in both remained explosive. Already violence flared at Shanghai's exits. As soon as a train backed up to the North Station, a tidal wave of people ran down the platform and surged over the train, filling it up within ten seconds. Later arrivals covered the roofs of the coaches and clung to the locomotive. At the Yangtze wharves huge throngs collected every morning, waiting for a boat. When the gates opened for passengers to board, a black torrent gushed on to the ship. After the craft was dangerously...
Above the Rond-Point subway station the parade was met by a cordon of police. An inspector reminded the leaders that the law permitted no demonstration in the upper half of the Champs Elysées without special authorization. To reach the Arc de Triomphe, they must make a detour...
Despite the local advent of television, most Crimson rooters will still get their news of the game through radio. Local coverage will be handled by station WHDH while WNHC in New Haven keeps stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts informed of the play-by-play...