Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
...France, the delegates could lunch on the train and pay in French francs. In Belgium a little later they could eat the same lunch, but the Belgian rate of exchange made the meal cost three times as much. If a delegate had a cup of coffee while the train was in France, he got one lump of sugar. In Belgium, he could have two lumps. In The Netherlands, he got as much sugar as he liked-not because the Dutch have more sugar, but because they have a different tourist policy...
...avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...
...night of June 16 John secreted Bigart in a compartment, marked "reserved for invalids," of a train bound" for Macedonia. Next afternoon, at stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled by mule and on foot over rugged mountain trails, always in guerrilla hands, never sure that he would not meet the same fate as Polk...
...Master. Dean Cromwell, 68, who once sold automobiles, is a man who never lets anybody beat him away from a stop light. He drives like a madman, wears natty bow ties, and loves to talk. At Kiwanis and Rotary luncheons he likes to say: "I don't train the boys, they train themselves." With a great show of modesty he also insists that he "has never hurt a good runner," and even his enemies grant him this...