Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outset it was clear that the Kremlin, for all the talk of a "Geneva spirit," was in no yielding mood, and the historic meeting almost broke up with no agreements at all. Midway through the talks, both sides conceded that they were getting nowhere. One morning, in his special train in Moscow's Leningrad station, Der Alte slammed his fist down onto a table and snapped to his assembled lieutenants: "Order the planes from Hamburg. Let's get out of this place...
There was no suggestion of the intimidated, the vanquished or the bidden about Konrad Adenauer's visit. The Germans traveled east with a showy, if not disdainful, display of self-reliance. A gleaming, 13-car train, a "chancellery on wheels," pulled in the day before carrying a huge entourage, with the Germans' own communications, their own police, Mercedes sedans, and huge stocks of their own food (sauerkraut, sausages, choice wines). Even the motorized gangway that pulled up to the door of Adenauer's Super Constellation had been shipped in ahead...
...hundred French air force reservists, recalled for service in Morocco, refused to board a southward-bound troop train at the Gare de Lyon in Paris this week. "Leave Morocco to the Moroccans," the airmen shouted. "We don't want to go." Unable to push them into the coaches, police finally rounded them all up and drove them back to their barracks...
...seeing Freud and his brother Alexander get off the train in Rome would have suspected that anything of this sort was happening. Freud behaved much like any other tourist. But in no time he was up against yet another father-figure -Michelangelo's famed statue of Moses in the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli. Freud "used to flinch at the angry gaze as if he were one of the disobedient mob . . . 'But later, Freud promoted himself and identified himself with Moses. Thus he was able, writing in 1914 after the refections of Adler, Stekel and Jung...
...since the early days of radio's Amos 'n' Andy had so many Americans waited so breathlessly for an evening broadcast. The question "Will he go for it?" was self-explanatory, whether asked in taxi, train, hotel lobby or on a city street. The he in this case was Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen. The 28-year-old naval science instructor at Ohio State, father of three and amateur cooking expert, had reached the $32,000 mark on The $64,000 Question by breezily describing the ingredients of five desserts: bombe, zabaglione, olycook, flummery and pfeffernuss...