Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard his 17-car train, some of his advisers felt that his scolding and name-calling was far below the standard of dignity for a U.S. President. Some pleaded with him to put his case in more statesmanlike phrases. But the President was determined, it seemed, to keep pouring out invective...
Previously scheduled to make only one trip this year--that by train to Princeton--one of the largest bands in Harvard's history decided that sleeping in a bus is a small enough sacrifice to take the field before the Army Band and to play above Cayuga's Waters...
...bank accounts had fostered a Spring prediction that even the traditional prediction that even the traditional Princeton trip might have to be cancelled. HAA aid and $1200 in donations later assured the band of the wherewithall to get to Nassau by train...
...gold towns of Minas Geraes. Their old wealth is long since gone; the red dust of Minas cakes their half-deserted streets. But Aleijadinho's heroic monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho's Church of the Bom Jesus...
Charles W. Morton's first weeks at Williams College were an adolescent agony of waiting for an invitation that never came. When fraternity rushing was over, the unpledged and miserable Morton took the first train home...