Word: train
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Greek government troops, with U.S. help, have lately made progress against the Communist rebels. Although Tito has cut down on his aid, Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania continue to train and equip the Greek Reds. On both sides of the Iron Curtain the struggle for Greece is watched intently. Failure to clean out the Communist bands will be taken as evidence that the anti-Communist world has no effective answer to Communist rebellion...
Jersey state police. They help train Persia's gendarmerie. That, said Acheson,is all. Acheson did not say so but it is a fact that scores of Communist agents have swarmed into northern Persia in the last few months. Teheran last week reported an "incident" near Gurgan, on the Persian-Russian border, where 50 Russian soldiers clashed with Persian forces; one Persian was killed, two abducted...
...Samuel Sidney McClure gave his goateed managing editor a jolt straight from the shoulder. McClure told Lincoln Steffens: "You don't know how to edit a magazine." Snapped Steffens: "How can I learn?" Said McClure: "You can't learn here . . . Buy a railroad ticket, get on a train, and there, where it lands you, there you will learn." Steffens, then 36, and already a crack reporter (New York Evening-Post), bought a ticket to Chicago. Before his U.S. travels were over, he had written The Shame of the Cities, a sizzling series of articles on nationwide municipal corruption...
...year in London, was a tremendous hit. Most of the enthusiastic raves were for a nine-year-old, towheaded actor named Bobby Henrey. The rest of the praise went to Author Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), who supplied a fascinating story, and to Director Carol Reed (Night Train), who for sheer virtuosity outdid himself. Most of the uproar, it turns out, was solidly justified...
Exactly how many girls will be elected to the staff has not yet been decided, according to 'Poon president John P. C. Train '50. "We'll take at least three or four," he commented last night, "if we can find that many with talents in our line...