Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real, the river's ice through which the transport inched, the towers of Manhattan like a backdrop in the haze. There were the pier, the music, the unbelievable feeling of being home again. There was the luxury of the warm, green-cushioned train, talking its metallic monologue across the wintry miles of home. At Camp Shanks, N.Y., there were white sheets, steaks and cold, country-fresh milk. Like gamblers fingering impossible mountains of winnings, the 1,300 soldiers could see and feel it all. But their minds could not yet quite accept this fairy-tale return...
When they left the train at Camp Shanks, out of long habit they formed ranks. Then an unreal officer told them unreal things through a loudspeaker. "We want to make your stay here pleasant and short. You leave tomorrow for your homes...
...ruddy-faced fighting man had said it for all as the train was rattling across the Jersey meadows that morning. He pressed close to the window and his eyes followed one spot on the moving, snow-covered landscape...
...Congressmen knew that when it came to a showdown, citizens would look twice at legislation which-by compelling American youth to train for war in times of peace-threw overboard one of the nation's oldest, most cherished traditions. Congressmen tried to look beyond polls. They listened for the words of opponents of the act, who might be in the minority but were already well organized and articulate (see EDUCATION...
With emotions somewhat like Noah's when the dove brought the olive twig to the Ark, Romans learned last week that the first civilian train since the armistice would soon chug down to Naples. It will take the Stella Roma (Rome Star) twelve hours to make the 135-mile run that crack trains used to make in less than four hours. But to Italians, who for a year and a half have known the isolation, despair and hunger that follow the collapse of a highly developed technological civilization, the wail of the Stella Roma's whistle would seem...