Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey got hit twice last week, once by a flying thermos jug, when his train crashed in Oregon, and once by Franklin Roosevelt...
...kind of earnest frenzy came aboard the Dewey train. Dewey, Bell & Co. went to work, and wrote four consecutive drafts. Dewey stayed up until 2 a.m., polishing the phrases; researchers were up for four more hours, checking facts and dates, even calling Albany from tiny way stations for more ammunition...
...rest of General Lee's executive background. His public-relations officer, Colonel "Jock" Lawrence, used to be Samuel Goldwyn's pressagent. In England General Lee travels in a large black limousine with red leather cushions. Before the invasion he often went on inspection trips in a private train -actually assigned to General Eisenhower, who had little use for it-which had two cars for automobiles, two for staff, dining and conference rooms and various utility cars...
...Dadabhai Naoroji, first president of the Indian National Congress and first Indian member of the British Parliament. She was recently released from prison. First jailed (for her political views) in Bihar, she was moved under escort of eight armed policemen and one wardress to the Poona jail. On the train the sleepy police men handed her their revolvers to guard. She asked: "How can you dare do this?" Answer : "Oh, we know you're nonviolent...
Colonel John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 40, who became the Nazis' richest U.S. prisoner when he was captured in southern France a month ago, escaped from a prison train, made his way back to U.S. lines. He told an awesome story of the destruction wreaked by U.S. airmen on German transport: the freight train on which he started toward Germany had taken eleven days to cover 80 miles, had three different locomotives on the journey. Reported a fellow fugitive: Jock was the coolest of all the prisoners, keeping up a blow-by-blow description of U.S. planes strafing the train...