Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train from Gemas to Jerontut chugged through the Malayan jungle, three Chinese stepped out of the underbrush and flagged it. The engineer, braking his train to a stop, realized with horror that the "flag" waved at him to stop was a human head. As if introducing a guest at a cocktail party, one of the Chinese said calmly: "This is Shorty Kuk. We've come to surrender, and we brought his head along...
...hidden in nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of all the ugliness and horror. I am trying to ... call attention to the constructive, not the destructive, to the balanced...
Roly-poly Prime Minister Nazimuddin of Pakistan was leaving by the 5:30 train. The red carpet had been rolled out through Karachi station, but before Nazimuddin could put foot on it, he was called to the phone: Governor General Ghulam Mohammad had news for him. The news...
Later, when Bibi and her father had bounced safely off to Pakistan in a jeep and Tara Singh had boarded a train to return home to Sunam, everyone was still talking and arguing over this amazing happening. On the train, one man, who did not recognize Tara Singh, vented his feelings. "A Sikh who repays the wickedness of the Moslems by a generous action like that," he exclaimed, "deserves to be shot." But Sardar Tara Singh only smiled quietly...
...with a group of some 700 Saxony Lutherans for whom German Lutheranism was getting too liberal and rationalistic, and too closely bound up with the state. He and three fellow ministers built the original Concordia-a log-cabin schoolhouse in Missouri's Perry County-and set out to train a New World breed of pastors in the strict, Bible-centered Lutheranism of their conviction...