Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This conference put in train a series of big-power negotiations which will take two to four years to complete and which may determine the shape of the peace for a long time to come. If it is true-and I think it is-that Mr. Eisenhower will seek a second term only if he's convinced that through another four years in the White House he could make a contribution to peace peculiarly his own, then Geneva produced new factors which, far more than theoretical arguments, could be decisive. After the hardest days of the Big Four discussions...
Wintle's Peace. At war's end, Wintle subsided into Kent to write novels and memoirs. He reappeared briefly in the public eye, accused of kicking a ticket collector at Victoria Station-unable to find a seat in the train, he had planted himself in the engine driver's cab, refused to move until they found...
...poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with bush-happy prospectors with fat bankrolls and big appetites for excitement. Job seekers, claim speculators, boomers arrived on every train, sifted in through the fire escapes of the Harmonic Hotel to bed down in bathtubs and corridors after all the rooms were taken...
Last week President Ballantine learned that trust would not be his only asset in the future. Still grateful for the special instruction it gave Turkish officers during World War II, the government wants the college to start a school of business and to expand its engineering school to train 1,000 rather than only 250 students a year. Meanwhile, a group of alumni and friends have organized the Turkish-American Educational Society to supplement Robert's $4,000,000 endowment with gifts of $170,000 a year. In return for all this, Duncan Ballantine hopes to make Robert play...
After the robber patrol knocks off a train, Ryan inducts a new enlisted man, tough-talking Robert Stack. Ryan does not know that Stack is an undercover cop for the U.S. Army. But Ryan has a paid informer himself-a Tokyo newsman of mixed Oriental background. This Peiping Tom discovers Stack's true identity, and then comes the fierce chase through Tokyo. It all ends with Villain Ryan, despite his prowess as a crooked field commander, getting his comeuppance at a rooftop carnival...