Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prayers. Determined to make good on his election promise, Attorney General Bonner sent the Mounted Police into the area immediately. Children were separated from their parents and put under temporary care of provincial welfare workers. All the adults in the camp (77 men, 71 women) were herded into a train. Praying loudly and singing mournful Russian hymns, they were hauled 590 miles to Vancouver to stand trial for contributing to juvenile delinquency...
They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and Augie takes to poker. It dies completely after Augie spends a night with Stella, a beautiful tart...
Lest you give the impression that there is any "Scotchness" about the Irish, I should like to point out for the record as an Irishman who traveled on the Dublin-Belfast train that the custom is to throw a raol into the Boyne when passing and not a meager penny as you said...
Although Do Not Forsake Me is Tiomkin's first popular hit, he has been writing movie music in Hollywood for 20 years (Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, Red River, The Big Sky). But not until he worked on U.S. Army orientation films during World War II did he discover the real purpose of his craft. Says he: "I learn to write ... not just for concert but for screen, combine music with sound and dialogue. Sometimes you give a little help to film." But he adds with...
...ballet, the Rabovskys' debut had human appeal. Last May, booked for guest appearances in East Berlin, they discovered that underneath their hotel was a subway station on the line leading to the Western sector. An hour before their first-night curtain, they slipped downstairs, took a westbound train, and, says Nora, whose English made her the family spokesman, "Whisst, we come out." Last week, curled up on a couch in their London apartment, Nora recalled that for two nights afterward, "I didn't sleep because I was thinking of mother, home, family. It's a very...