Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the German stroller's chest. One of them rasped: "Take us to the American military police. If you hand us over to the Russians, we shoot you." The German hastily complied. Not far away a third young man, also armed, accosted a German waiting for an El train and had himself taken to the Americans the same...
Five days later they had covered about a third of the distance on foot, living on apples and potatoes. They sold a silver cigarette case, a watch and two sweaters for train fare. At Uckro, only 40 miles from Berlin, they had their first gun fight with the Vopos (People's Police). "As we were leaving the station," Ctirad Masin recounted later, "Vopos suddenly confronted us and asked for identification . . . My brother and I drew our guns and started shooting. Three of the Vopos fell, and the others fled, as did all the bystanders. Then we ran . . . Later...
Says Commuter Bristol (who did much of the work on the hymnal on the train between his Princeton, N.Y. home and his Manhattan office) : "A man's Sunday self and his weekday self are like two halves of a round-trip ticket : not good if detached...
...sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows please quit chasing me? Do you want to kill me dodging these cars?" Later he hopped a train for Manhattan, where he faces two more raps: one for dodging the truth about his criminal record when he applied for U.S. naturalization, the other for dodging $73.417 in income taxes...
...Long Way Home. In Dunkirk, France, after a night's drinking. Englishmen Frank Lee and Eric Pape finally woke up, discovered that they had taken the wrong train, crossed the English Channel on a ferry instead of commuting home to their London suburb...