Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waging war directly on the commandos, without regard to their host countries. If that amounted to recognition of the commandos as an independent force, it also assured them of a more harrowing existence. Hardly had the decision been announced when Israeli ground troops attacked a Jordanian police station suspected of being a jumping-off point for fedayeen raids. One Israeli soldier was wounded in an hour-long battle, which ended after Israel's jets were called in to bomb the Arab positions...
...year-old woman was killed yesterday morning when she fell in the path of a Boston-bound MBTA subway train in the Harvard Square station. The victim was identified as Mrs. Christian Lane of Washington Street in Gloucester...
...that, you never forgot what railroading was really like: derailments in Montana, $2.00 hamburgers in the Lewis and Clark Car, perverts in the men's room at Union Station, and worst of all, the interminable length of time it took to get home...
...Penn Station in New York is brightly lit and gilded plastic. It is not a proper home for trains. The dispatcher sits in a glass booth suspended over the main hall. You know that he served his apprenticeship in an airport form the way he issues commands, as if it is all a game of Railroad, in which the people below are his playing pieces. If the Secretary of Transportation ever institutes high-speed train service on the East Coast, he will employ men like this Penn Dispatcher. The result will be an airline on wheels...
Somewhere across New Jersey, rain and the night overtook my train. The moisture that formed on the windows was too thin to form teardrops. And I was tried. As we pulled into 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, I knew I shouldn't leave the train. Perhaps, if I stayed on, if the train continued, perhaps I would discover the power and energy which America once invested in its railroad. I got off, though, even though I knew the station would look square and dark, a mausoleum. For in a few days I had to return to Boston. By plane...