Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rocketing Train. That night he turned on his smile for the state's Republican delegation (only one man failed to show up: he was in a hospital). He charmed everyone in sight, went off to bed early. The next morning he rocketed off to Richmond. No sooner had he stepped off the train than an enthusiastic city committeewoman rushed up, bussed him on the cheek and burbled later: "I was just so happy I hardly knew what I was doing. I doubt if the governor even remembers it." Gallantly Dewey told a press conference: "Do you think I could...
Many a U.S. citizen experienced a sense of embarrassment as Harry Truman's campaign train headed into the far West. After his Omaha fiasco (TIME, June 14) the President of the U.S. seemed, for a few days, like a groggy fighter out in mid-ring with his eyes glazed and his hands down. He and his office took punishment from angry and shockingly undisciplined Democratic politicos, from a public which showed little interest in its distinguished visitor, and from Politician Harry Truman himself, a man with an unfortunate facility for slips of the tongue...
Despairing Message. Everybody who could was leaving beleaguered Mukden. The lucky few went by plane, the majority (140,000 last month) by train, which ran only as far as Hsinmin on the edge of the Mukden defense perimeter. Said a ragged shopkeeper, crouched in the station with his family of ten: "We will go to Tientsin where my ancestors lived. We'll become farmers again." The Chinese Reds would gladly let him through. The message of despair that he and other refugees would bring to Nationalist China was payment enough...
...Columnist Drew Pearson, whose Friendship Train sent 700 boxcars of food to Europe and got him named Father of the Year, decided to try it again. Aping Henry Wallace, he got off an open letter to Joseph Stalin: "I propose that we, the American people, again organize a Friendship Train ... to the children of Russia . . . Your acceptance . . . might be a milestone in avoiding the war . . . toward which we seem to be drifting." Pearson made the implications clear to his 30 million readers. If Stalin does not "act on it . . . then we will know exactly where we stand with Russia...
...tired, then you can walk. If you walk fast you get completely exhausted, and there's nothing for you to do but sit down.") Laskau won by about 75 yards over Fred Sharaga, 38, who had taken three weeks off from his engineering job to train for the race. Weber came in third. That qualified all three to be named as the team to walk for the U.S. in London this summer. The U.S. has not won an Olympic walking race for 42 years...