Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bevan is too much a demagogue to approve a system where demagogery is without influence, too much an opportunist to like a system that demands unquestioning submission to discipline. In the tense days before the Berlin airlift, Bevan was one of the few who wanted to send an armored train through the Soviet blockade to relieve Berlin...
...President furnished a few details. Said he: "As these arrangements are being made we will set up a reactor school to help train representatives of friendly nations in skills needed for their own atomic program. Discussions will shortly take place on cooperation with countries planning to build their own research reactors." The U.S. was, he said, about to negotiate with Belgium on the building of an atomic tower reactor in that country; this week detailed negotiations will begin with Canada, and negotiations with other nations will swiftly follow...
...also becoming clear to many worried Frenchmen that the rejection of EDC had set in train a series of allied reactions which Mendès had not sufficiently anticipated. Shaping up before the French was one of those logical questions that French Premiers have a habit of putting to their allies. France might reject EDC, but is it prepared to go all the way and discard its NATO shield...
Turned down again, the French Premier flew to Normandy to report his rebuffs to French President René Coty, who was taking the waters at Bagnoles de 1'Orne. The same evening, feeling sorry for himself, Mendès took his private diesel train back to Paris, ordering the engineer to stop overnight on a railway siding. "I was all alone with the rain," the Premier said afterwards...
...angry at him. Sometimes Runyon made shy overtures, but "his stumbling attempt to play the palsey Pop [was] so patently gawky" that Damon Jr. thought his father was just performing an unpleasant chore. Even Runyon's presents were wrong. Damon Jr. was afraid of the huge electric train and could not even lift the sailboat with a five-foot mainmast...