Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Harry Truman, his family and 200 others boarded his special train, sped noisily off to Philadelphia for the "Army-Navy game. This year he sat on Navy's side, bobbed up & down in his box seat as Navy officers got between him and the play, stayed until the last play, the last whistle...
...When I travel I get moody," says Rocky Graziano. Out in Oakland, Calif., far from his Brooklyn haunts, Rocky was training for a fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
Having been asked for advice, the ministers spoke frankly. Said Missionary E. Stanley Jones: "A doctor must train . . . spiritually as well as physically . . . Fifty percent of sick persons need prayer more than pills, aspiration more than aspirin, meditation more than medication...
...week he was doing just that. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., Columbus, Ohio, Wheeling, W. Va. and eleven other cities and towns, hundreds of thousands of children turned out to watch department-store parades featuring Jean Gros's balloons. He had a dragon 100 ft. long, a 450-ft. train with rubber figures of people and animals poking their heads out of the windows, Santa Claus, and a string of jeeps...
...planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything is businesslike. Take The Enforcer [Gunman Frank Nitti]; he keeps everybody in line for Al. Somebody gets out of line, Al tells The Enforcer, the next thing you know a couple of guys get off a train from Detroit or New York or St. Louis, and The Enforcer tells them who has to go. The guys do the job and go home. The price...