Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped into a White House limousine with Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret, Harry Truman was a cool and confident man. He boarded his special train for Philadelphia, changed to a white linen suit and two-toned shoes, then opened a black leather folder and went over his speech...
Pallante got some money from his father, a retired forester, saying that he needed it for examination fees at the University of Catania. For 3,500 lire (about $6) he bought a .38 pistol and five cartridges. Then he took a train to Rome, and there rented a room in a cheap boardinghouse. He went to the Monte Citorio Palace, where Italy's Parliament meets, and asked for a visitor's card from a Sicilian delegate, Francisco Turnaturi. (Later Turnaturi denied that he knew Pallante. "When he insisted he came from Randazzo, a place where I had many...
...with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going to kill every white man in Malaya." As the rebels left, the girl guerrilla took the station first-aid hamper with...
...rumors were right, Pinkley looked like a good man for the new paper's top job. As U.P.'s vice president and European general manager, Pinkley averaged 200,000 miles a year, acquired a travel agent's memory for train and plane schedules. He also developed a fondness for playing with words, congratulating U.P. staffers for stories with plenty of "zoomo," "zippo" and "peppo." What did he think about the zoomo annex, its zippo presses and the prospects of a peppo afternoon paper? Said Pinkley blandly last week: "It's a highly rentable office building...
...Mare has made two trips to the U.S., bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one's huge metallic caravan edges slowly through Main Street...