Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-year appropriation to $4 billion. Then, at five minutes past the next midnight, 31 Republicans joined 38 Democrats to approve the Economic Cooperation Act, 69 to 17, in just about the form in which Vandenberg had originally proposed it (TIME, March 1). Bob Taft, who had a train to catch, did not even stay for the final vote-he was paired...
...Citizens of Louisiana, piqued at being left off the itinerary of the Friendship Train, sent off their own New Orleans Friendship Ship loaded with 10,000 tons of food and clothing for Orleans, France...
Bolles refuses to worry about Yale's powerful Freshman aggregation that downed the Harvard yearlings last June. He dismisses the threat with, "That was the slowest Freshman crew Harvard has had since I've been here." He is just as unperturbed by the extensive training program that Eli coach Skip Walz has put his charge through since last fall, and he even shrugs off the fact that every rival crew has already been in the water for several weeks. "You can only train a crew just so long," is the Bolles theory...
...often faced his responsibilities with a cheerful, dogged courage. But his performance was almost invariably awkward, uninspired and above all, mediocre. He had declined to assume real leadership. Most of the time, instead of leading, Mr. Truman had been whipped around the curves like the last car of the train. Even on an issue in which he was right with most of the country, Mr. Truman found himself in wrong with most of his fellow Democrats. The Southerners howled with rage because he proposed to assure Negroes their constitutional rights. The fellow travelers had deserted him earlier because he would...
After taking a late train from Boston last night. Margarita is scheduled to arrive in Washington early this morning to take over his new coaching post officially...