Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William C. Chance, a Negro, was ejected from an Atlantic Coastline train in Virginia when he refused to move to a Negro coach. He sued, and the Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond decided in 1951 the Company's segregation rule was invalid. The Supreme Court now, in effect, has ruled that lines may no longer require Negroes to ride between states in "Jim Crow" cars...
Then the general, after his 309th speech since the campaign began, entrained for his New York headquarters. For the first time in grueling weeks, he relaxed at a party aboard the train (up until 3 a.m.). At 7:15, at Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, he seemed a little weary. "Let's just stroll," he said to Mamie, and, forgoing his usual military pace, they walked up the ramp to his waiting limousine...
...Pontiac office, filled with clips and letters ("my heartwarming mementos"). Once in a great while, when a student seems to be taking things too easy at school, Higgins summons him home for a stern lecture ("You've got to scratch. You're not riding a gravy train"). But in all the years of his hobby, he has never had a failure. "About the only one who comes close to it," George Higgins likes to say, "is a girl who up and gets married on me-before she finishes college...
...that they would prefer their daughters to marry "some kid with less ambition." But the hard workers themselves are much happier than the lazy ones. "If they had to choose between their wives and their jobs, they would take their jobs any time. They love the business luncheons and train compartments and long hours. They enjoy...
...this year are plastic cap rifles ($2.98 to $4). Yo-yos come shaped like basketballs, footballs and baseballs. For electric train buffs, there is a new signal tower; when the train goes by, one man pops out, another climbs down the ladder waving his flag at motorists...