Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train from Rome to Milan sallow, soft-voiced Communist Leader Fausto Gullo could only get an upper berth. A young fellow traveler respectfully offered his lower berth to the former Minister of Justice. But Gullo said: "It's my fault for not having booked early enough. I was late. I'm grateful, but really, one should pay for being late...
...Adventists' train came to a dead halt after the first few miles. Communist troops of General Chen Yi questioned them, bragged that the next train would not leave for two years. When Nationalist forces appeared, the Reds withdrew. The Warren party hired pushcarts and continued south. Behind them they heard the gunfire of new attacks, but twice each day they paused for prayer...
...unanimous decision, which seemed to go further than the Gaines rule. Said Vinson: "[Ada Sipuel] is entitled to secure legal education afforded by a state institution. [Oklahoma] must provide it for her . . . and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group." Ada took a train for home, to be ready when Oklahoma's new term begins next week...
...Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...
...Telephone Rang. Last October, Michael's mother, Queen Helen, was summarily commanded to vacate her Banloc villa. Rumania's blowzy, blow-torchy Communist boss and Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, her ruddiest henchmen and Yugoslavia's Tito needed a meeting place. Tito arrived in a private train protected by 1,500 crack troops and a food-taster. The servants in the villa were locked up to insure privacy, and for four days (while Rumania's top Communists rustled their own food and made their own beds) the policymakers discussed Queen Helen's son Michael...