Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning the Russians assembled at Seoul's railroad station. The Americans saw them off. Generals Arnold and Shtykov chatted pleasantly for half an hour. Vodka was poured. As the Soviet train pulled north toward Korea's iron curtain, the last Russian visible, standing in the rear door of the end coach, was a Tommy-gunner...
...licked the northern wilderness could not take modern highway conditions. On the gravel of the Alaska Highway their engines became clogged with dust, the heat in the vehicles became unbearable. At Grand Prairie, Alberta, with but 250 miles to go to Edmonton, Musk-Ox called for help. A special train was sent up. Eighty days out of Churchill, Manitoba, the weary men of Musk-Ox were glad to load their snowmobiles on the train, pile on themselves for the ride to their goal...
...teacher in Japan. Says he: "Almost before I spoke, I was glad to have a pencil in my hand." Young Paul used to spend his weekly sen for color prints instead of candy. Now, sitting in a kimono on the floor of his western-style villa (six miles' train-ride from Tokyo), Jacoulet designs his own prints...
...Trained Sleeper. In Buffalo, Douglas Mercer boarded a train, snoozed away the trip to Rochester. His berth: atop the locomotive boiler, beside a sizzling steam valve...
...will be the big arm of "little train" Robbie Sturgeon on which the fate of the high-flying Plympton Street pulverizers will rest. The train is expected to be in top shape for the contest after a seven-month layoff. He is, of course, undefeated in league competition...