Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voter lists posted outside the Cambridge fire station showed that Harvard students make up more than half of Ward Six. Precinct Three, the third largest precinct in the city. Quad residents vote in Ward Seven, Precinct Five...
Bizarre commentaries, like Mr. Fried's, make for interesting reading, but then again, didn't I see him getting on the Arborway line when I took the train to North Station? John Jacobs...
...twice-weekly passenger express left on schedule, gliding smoothly out of the airy Chinese-built station at 6:40 p.m. Picking up speed (to a jaunty 30 m.p.h.), the train, imported from China along with everything else that went into making the Tazara railway, headed southwest toward its Zambian terminus, which, according to the timetable, lay 36 hours away...
...hose, while passengers crowded around the carcass to gawk and hack off chunks of meat. At Mkushi, one of the many Zambian bush towns that have been revitalized by the railway, we waited for two more hours under a broiling sun. Our engineer and conductor lost an argument with station controllers over whether our express or a lumbering local should have priority on the single track...
...scheduled ten-minute stop at Mbeya, a major station on the line, consumed four hours. About 300 yds. down the track from Mbeya, the train ground to a stop for two more hours, blocked this time by a derailed locomotive that lay sideways across the track, attended by an honor guard of solemn onlookers. Passengers transferred to another train on the other side of the locomotive. Ragged local children, helping to transfer luggage, amassed undreamed-of fortunes in tips...