Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political campaign rolled to its climax, the President of the U.S. was a calm and confident candidate. Wherever his plane or train had carried him across the land, Ike, had found full crowds, enthusiastic faces. Wherever Democrats had raised an issue to badger him, he met it quietly, succeeded (so his supporters thought) in turning it to his own advantage. Less and less White House aides discussed the presidential race, more and more they made optimistic estimates about the number of G.O.P. Congressmen who would ride in on Ike's coattails. Last week, to spread those coattails even wider...
...discussing the tricks of cross-examination, Leibowitz urged that law schools form departments of forensic psychology to train students in this art. He maintained that law students should "cram in" courses in public speaking unless they wanted to spend their lives not in trial law but "in an office with 20 names on the door...
Gone from Adlai Stevenson's 13-car train as it jounced through the bright-hued Midwest last week was the sign that had keyed the earlier stages of the Democratic campaign: "The Joe Smith Special." In its place was a brightly painted new one: "The Stevenson Presidential Special." The switch was symbolic, for the Democratic candidate, with less than three weeks to go before E-Day, had gotten about as much mileage as possible out of Joe Smith, well knew that it was time to stoke the campaign with all the burning issues he could find...
...touching gently at first. Then it bounced hard, whipped around violently as an engine tore loose, snapped in two. Quickly the crew discharged and inflated the life rafts. The passengers waded cautiously through the cabin rubble, hopped into the rafts. Within ten minutes after the Stratocruiser struck water Pontchar train's small boats had picked up all survivors-only five were slightly injured-and deposited them, snuggled into blankets, aboard the cutter. Eleven minutes later, what was left of the Stratocruiser disappeared in the foam...
...ATOMIC TRAIN will be built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., third biggest U.S. maker of locomotives. Baldwin has signed contract with Kidde & Co. Inc. to develop a nuclear reactor, will build engine for Denver & Rio Grande Western...