Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rugged, outdoor life, its setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County Court...
...Humenne, in the burgeoning Slovak countryside, he switched from train to auto. Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt...
...twelve-day round of caviar and vodka, of toasts and talks, came to an end. From Moscow shrewd little Dr. Eduard Benes rode a special Soviet train to his liberated homeland...
Clanking and wheezing, a spavined suburban train crept out of Rio de Janeiro. Late as usual, packed to the gills with the sweating homeward-bound, it broke down outside the city. For a while the passengers endured with true commuter calm. Then, like an oilfield fire, wild revolt swept through the train. The long-suffering customers tore out the seats by the roots, dragged down light fixtures and luggage racks, turned the train into a shambles...
...Bulova Watch Co., Inc. will open a school in Queens to train severely wounded veterans as expert watch and clock repairers. The school expects to graduate 500 men a year, will cost Bulova $500,000. To be sure of jobs for its graduates, Bulova asked the nation's retail jewelers for help. By last week 1,400 jewelers agreed to hire Bulova-trainees...