Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Africa. Britain is reducing its army by 100,000 men; Belgium is disbanding one of its three active divisions; four of the five Dutch divisions are mere skeletons. Denmark's contribution in soldiers is practically negligible, since its 14-month conscription period is too short to train a soldier properly...
Every time the train halted at a small town, a horde of black jerseys would descend and startle the natives with a quick signal and passing drill. Between stops, the players would do calisthenics in the aisles, and if the train broke down, they would dash outside to do wind sprints while repairs were being made...
...Omaha, "Mack" Baldridge, 1916 Yale tackle, boarded the train unexpectedly and revealed that Oregon was using underhanded methods. "Oregon is leaving no stone unturned in preparing its team to defeat you," he said. "I know a Yale player who was offered $150 and expenses to pay a visit to Oregon and outline Harvard's style of play in a blackboard talk...
Watchful Men. First of all, though one-third of the delegates were professional educators, "college professors, who must further train for intellectual leadership much of the product of the schools, and who know also something about why college graduates avoid schoolteaching, were not in evidence." Worse still: the final reports to the conference on the six topics discussed did nothing more than echo an educationist party line...
Consider the case of the young intellect from San Francisco--assuming some unearthly despotic system were in effect this year to detain early leavers, the San Fransciscan could not legally leave South Station by train until 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 21st. Accordingly, he would not come rolling in until Christman Eve, barely in time to hang up his stocking, and certainly too late to fill anyone else's. The foolhardy gent who chose to ride the bus could arrive no sooner than noon on Christmas Day assuming that the bus was on time, too late to give and worse...