Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself at Palm Beach. Our nearest staff correspondent (Atlanta) was sick; so we sent Ed Lockett, one of our Washington bureau's most experienced reporters, to get Giannini's side of the story. Unable to find a plane seat on such short notice, Lockett took the night train. On the way he read through a stack of material he picked up on the Giannini bank's activities and filed us a summary of it. And, as a warning not to expect early copy, he kept sending bulletins on how late his train...
Even Bedsheets. Of all European countries, France was most enthusiastic in welcoming tourists and foreign exchange. Railways were mending their torn roadbeds, the glamorous Blue Train to the Riviera was back in service, nightclubs now got enough electricity to stay open till dawn, and the municipality of Nice grandly announced: "Our hotels are ready, our guests will lack neither bedsheets nor tablecloths." But about half of France's hotels were still closed, and many of the rest were filled with Frenchmen who wanted a vacation themselves. The beaches of Normandy and Brittany were still dotted with maverick German mines...
McGovern was offered a top occupation job in Japan, but preferred to return to Northwestern to train, with the State Department's unofficial blessing, some of the 5,000 U.S. civilians needed in Japan and Germany. Says he: "I'm in favor of self-destructive military government...
...passenger car every window was propped open with a stick of kindling wood. A breeze blew through, hot and then cool, fragrant of the woods and yellow flowers and of the train. The yellow butterflies flew in at any window, out at any other, and outdoors one of them could keep up with the train, which then seemed to be racing with a butterfly. .. . . Once the [train] stopped in the open fields and Laura saw the engineer ... go out and pick some specially fine goldenrod. . . . Sometimes like a fuzzy caterpillar looking in the cotton was a winding line of thick...
Robert, growing older, also has trouble because of his faith. It is shaken when sickness prevents his winning the scholarship that might have made him a doctor. It is sorely pressed when his best friend, hurrying to console him, is killed by a train before his eyes. (Audiences may echo with equal perplexity his plea to God: "Why? Why?") It is destroyed when, despite prayer, his foster-mother dies. With faith gone, it is natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with...