Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusk, carrying their drugged children, their tools, their tar paper, the oxygen tank, some food, water, and the inevitable bottle of slivovitz, Bedrich and his daughter-in-law Drahomira climbed into the space Marian had left in the lumber. Marian followed, pulling some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with the tar paper. Two days later they were in the Soviet zone of Austria-with the border of the U.S. zone just ahead. The Cechs ate and drank the last of their supplies, including a well...
...sake of the children to give himself up. The family tumbled out of the car, he said later, "like dead flies, cramped and almost too weak to stand." Marian irritably scolded his wife for being clumsy. Drahomira burst out crying. Then they learned that guards had checked the train and found nothing amiss...
...stationmaster and told him that they had been sent to expedite a carload of lumber urgently needed at Trieste. The gamble paid off. Soon afterward, thanks to a railroad official too used to bureaucratic interference to question it, their car was newly coupled to a fast, westward-bound train. With their secret compartment now stocked with hot coffee and thirst-quenching beer, the three generations of fugitive Cechs rolled over the U.S. border into Linz. Next stop: Earlham, Iowa (pop. 771), the home of Bedrich's daughter, Mrs. Ronald K. Brown...
Ishii smiled and said: "We have all eaten such a big dinner that my family is taking a nap and I am going for a walk to help my digestion. I will pay you in full in a few minutes." Then Ishii threw himself in front of a passing train...
...retail market in early 1954. Arnold thinks his toys will go a long way toward releasing children's creative talents, which have been clogged by too many toys "that are just miniature models of real things." Adults, says Arnold, love such realistic gadgets as a miniature train with all the details of the real thing; many young children may find them frustrating. Says Arnold: "The more realistic the toy, the more you limit the child's play. A child is never concerned with reality...