Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon's well-planned appearance in western Massachusetts last week showed, it is virtually inconceivable that the Republicans could ever lose a campaign train. But that is just what happened last Wednesday in Sunbury, Pa., to Stevenson's special train with the private car that carried Woodrow Wilson to victory in 1912. Stevenson's party had left the train and arranged to meet it in Sunbury, but the engineer was delayed half an hour while Adlai wanted around the station. And every day, reporters said, their buses were severed from the candidate's open car cavalcade. On Saturday, the buses...
...almost obsolete campaign train, which will be revived fitfully this month, was relished by none: it once meant days on end without showers, air conditioning or stationary sleep. But the new prop-stop technique creates tighter, more ambitious travel schedules and a clutter of motor cade side trips, makes it far tougher to get a story written-and to file between the incommunicado hours aloft...
...could read. But by the very nature of the modern reader, top writers are often automatically ruled out. "Fine literature, even such as is consciously written for children, cannot be created out of a meager vocabulary, much of it proper names (Mary, Jack) or names of common objects (chair, train, dish), especially if the author has to produce lessons in which each new word must be repeated ten times, and words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play this sort of game, so the modern readers are not written by writers...
Chemin de Per. In Lisbon, after hushing up for years a 4:29 a.m. train that takes gamesters back to town every dawn from the gambling resort of Estoril, the Sociedade Estoril railroad decided to come clean, put it in the timetable...
...finished describing where the body was found." But he also knew that tidiness and brevity - for him - could mean disaster. To Perkins he wrote: "Restrain my adjectives, by all means, discipline my adverbs, moderate the technical extravagances of my incondite exuberance, but don't derail the train, don't take the Pacific Limited and switch it down the siding towards Hogwart Junction...