Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany, Der Alte responded with furious energy and biting tongue. He whistle-stopped through Bavaria and Hesse, speaking from the back platform of his train. His object: to correct what he called "strange confusions" and "curious unclarity...
...luck that day, upon leaving the institute, to board the wrong elevated train. When the train stopped, I found myself in the Russian zone with a People's Policeman asking for identification. I thought first of the scraps of notepaper in my pockets, including what the Russian Encyclopedia has to say about the cardinals in Vatican City, which had amused me greatly while copying it down...
Minutes later I was being taken to the station in the company of a policeman. I was put on a train for West Berlin without having to pay for the ticket, and was glad to be leaving without any further delay...
...must have your complete attention for the next three hours," he said. "The opera begins at 3:00 and the whole company has to catch a train at 7:00." He said the last sentence very dramatically, observing the supers' reactions. They were suitably impressed, so he went on. The girl in the back walked off-stage to change her clothes while Mr. Williams wasn't looking...
...middle. Robert the Robot, an Ideal flashing-eyed mechanical monster ($5.95), can be made to move forward and back, swing its arms and recite: "I'm Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts "Calling all cars . . ." Among electric trains, the newest is Toyland Products' train for three-to six-year-olds. It consists of a string of wooden cars, driven by three flashlight batteries, that go forward and back around an oval of fiber on which is printed an electric circuit. Price...