Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment he looked down from his train in Chicago and saw Candidate Adlai Stevenson being gouged and elbowed and jostled in the howling platform mob, Harry Truman was in his glory. Before the week was out, Truman had left candidates' headquarters heaped with bitten fingernails and transformed the 1956 Democratic National Convention from a drab dogtrot into a race of rare and exhilarating drama...
...Olympic Committee agrees that Stan has the answers; it has appointed him coach of the women's Olympic team. And after watching Shelley and the rest of the Reed girls operate, Stan's Melbourne-bound squad knows it is in for some rugged training. "Everyone agrees that the way to train swimmers is to keep sending them over long distances," says Coach Tinkham, "so I go about it just the opposite. At Walter Reed [the U.S. Army Hospital in Washington] we swim sprints all the time. That way every swimmer gets her second wind every practice. Of course...
...that she must not take the child out of the country. But, "as soon as I had Paul safe in my arms," she confessed, "I went to a suburban station where the family couldn't follow me, and I got the last second-class ticket on the first train leaving for Basra." Added Mrs. Subbagh, "I'm never going to leave the United States again as long as I live...
...Advice to the men: "It's ladies first, of course, when you enter a car or a door or sit down. But on a stairway, be sure to walk ahead of the lady. This is because the skirts are getting so short." Advice for all: "Americans consider a train coach a parlor, and pandemonium will result if any Japanese strip to their underwear, as on Japanese trains." ¶ The national organization of the Sigma Kappa sorority notified its chapters at Cornell and Tufts universities that "for the good of the sorority as a whole," it was expelling them both...
...head the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, kindly Mathematician Lowell Reed came out of retirement at 67 to serve only until the university could find a younger man. Besides its prestige, Johns Hopkins had a special attraction for Dwight Eisenhower's brother: Baltimore is only a 45-minute train ride from Washington. "I shall come," said Milton Eisenhower to his new trustees, "with enthusiasm...