Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to catch a 1:30 train, but Mr. Cohn was so violent by then that I felt I had better not do it and leave him that angry with me and that angry with Senator McCarthy because of a remark I had made. So I stayed and missed my 1:30 train. I thought surely I would be able to get out of there by 2:30 . . . I missed the 2:30 train also...
Trying desperately to catch a 3:30 train, Adams accepted a ride in Cohn's car. The surges of anger were still coming, said Adams, but were directed mostly at Senator McCarthy, who, two or three times during the ride, asked Adams to see about a New York assignment for Private Schine...
...middle of four lanes of traffic and said, 'Get there however you can.' So I climbed out of the car in the middle of four lanes of traffic . . . ran across the street and jumped into a cab to try to make the 3:30 train." The committee room was breathless with suspense as Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins asked the inevitable question: Did Adams catch the 3:30 train? Replied John Adams: "The 3:30 train was ten minutes late, so I made it." Then he added: "Mr. Carr told me a few days later that he didn...
...religious music because of its innocent quality. The early composers of the polyphonic period wrote for boys and men, not for men and women. So it's my belief that this music can only be sung by boys and men, and I wanted to find out how to train them. That was my chief problem, and I think I dug it up." Exceptional voices are not the secret of what Father O'Malley has accomplished with the choir (he has been with it ever since he was ordained in 1928). If a boy can sing America with...
...James M. Symes, 56, who started railroading as a train master's clerk, was elected president and chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Railroading has taken him to almost every town and branch line on the system: one year he spent 200 nights on sleepers. The son of a baggage master, Symes (rhymes with hymns) grew up near the tracks in his native Glen Osborne, Pa., got a job at 18 on the Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago...