Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Butcher Knife. Then the presidential train began a station-to-station run to Buffalo. Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon...
Telling Garland not to move for five minutes and not to notify the police, the robber then fled down the street. The main instructor hastened to a nearby gas station and reported the incident...
...contingent leaves South Station for West Point at 8 a.m. this morning, and the team will arrive in time for an afternoon workout in Michie Stadium, that awesome plant in which the Cadets have produced 123 football victories since its construction in 1924. The superstitious can gain some solace from the fact that Harvard took one of the eight games Army has dropped in that time. But Army is particularly ferocious in its own lair, and they are not expected to fold tomorrow...
...blaze was discovered in six-family dwelling two houses away from Kirkland House at 12:20 a.m., and a resident fireman turned in the alarm. Nine pieces of equipment from the Memorial Hall and Central sq. station soon supplied three high-pressure hoses and great quantities of water as a small blaze the back stairs was quietly immolated...
...affected father Sitwell's innate dignity-not even his habit of crawling on all fours around his house, a Malacca cane clenched between his teeth, in order to observe his latest building schemes from a fresh angle. But once, as Osbert remembers it, he did demean his noble station-when his butler, whose wages were overdue, politely requested an accounting. Shocked to the core by this impudence, Sir George stalked the shrinking varlet slowly across the room, finally whispered in his ear the terrible words: "Shut your ugly...