Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped antipersonnel grenades on the city of Zacapa, and the government began evacuating civilians. A Thunderbolt worked over a troop train near by and stopped it. Soldiers leaped from the cars and melted into the countryside; some of them reportedly went over to the rebels...
Food Like Home. When the visitors arrived a fortnight early, the little town of Henley shrugged off its normal absent-minded air and pitched in to help them train. At first the Russians-nine assorted coaches and chaperones, a chubby lady physician and 23 earnest oarsmen-were split into two groups, one to reside at the Jolly Waterman, a tavern about a mile from the river, the other at Fair Mile, twelve-room Victorian residence of Reginald Pearce, a Henley jeweler. Said...
...flight back," he cabled, "I got a glimpse of highway battle-a peasant village burning furiously, shells bursting in the paddies, the artillery fire directed by an observation plane circling overhead. Like traffic waiting for a train to pass, long lines of cars stretched from points about two miles apart where they had been stopped by troops." Shortly thereafter Mecklin was to report at firsthand just such a highway battle, typical of IndoChina's hit-and-run war. Accompanying General Rene Cogny, he took part in an inspection tour of Namdinh and Binh-luc. The following day, Mecklin risked...
FIRST LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN has been ordered by the Rock Island Lines for its 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run. The four-car train, to be made by ACF Industries, builders of Spain's aluminum "Talgo" (TIME, April 18, 1949), will be about one-half the weight per passenger of current trains, could carry 300 passengers up to 110 m.p.h. It is scheduled to be in service by Christmas...
...said Fayant, "I wrote one of 'em myself"-"World's most famous train" (20th Century Limited...