Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enough to fill a train of grain cars extending from the U.S. to Pakistan...
Pocketbook Judgment? After a series of reunions, Truman boarded a train for Philadelphia. There, in his speech to the Reserve Officers Association, he took credit for some of the favorable developments in the world, e.g., the Communists are having trouble in East Germany largely "because of things that this nation did last year, or the year before, or four or five years ago." He came out hard against defense budget cuts: "I think that those who talk about our defense program being too big may be letting their pocketbooks obscure their judgment...
After this re-entry into the political arena, Harry Truman took a train to New York City to join Mrs. Truman and Margaret. He checked into suite 32-A in the Waldorf Towers, directly above Herbert Hoover's suite (31-A) and five floors directly below the suite (37-A) of Douglas MacArthur. He dropped down to the Waldorf barbershop to get a haircut, and let photographers snap him as he is rarely seen-without glasses...
...Manhattan for a quick taste of town life before hunting elephants in Africa, Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist Ernest (The Old Man and the Sea) Hemingway made copy for Columnist Leonard Lyons merely by talking like Hemingway. ". . . On the train to New York he had sneezed -and his belt burst. He bought a new one, 40 waist. 'Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing...
...hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks out the spy by smashing his head against a wall, slugs it out with him on a subway platform and on the tracks in front of an oncoming train...