Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substitutes for brains and will power." When Adlai Stevenson remarked, "A wise man does not try to hurry history," Eisenhower replied: "Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...
...Homestretch. As Ike's education progressed, he gradually became his own top adviser. At the beginning, Eisenhower's hastily assembled staff was disorganized. But the organization improved fast. Republican National Chairman Arthur Summerfield does not try to manage Ike's train; he concentrates chiefly on that large part of the campaign which does not revolve directly around the candidate...
...homestretch of the campaign, Ike is in top form, with a new self-assurance and gusto. The 200-odd speeches, the 40,000 miles by train, plane and car, the motorcades in the chill wind, the 2 a.m. platform appearances seem to have left no mark on him. His voice is only slightly hoarse (he yelled lustily at the Army-Columbia football game). His enthusiasm for talking to people and exchanging views with them seems to grow. He has coined no great phrases, although some Ike sentences pack a weighty punch. Samples...
Bell on the Border. One morning last August, Mieczyslaw, just past his 13th birthday, left home again. He carried an old briefcase containing a pair of sneakers, a box of matches and four pounds of bread. He had 200 zlotys ($50) in his pocket. He took a train to a town near the Oder, crossed the river on a ferry, and headed for the Polish-German border. He got lost in the forests, ate the last of his bread, dug potatoes out of a field and baked them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along...
...been experiencing premonitions of violent death. He has taken to carrying a pistol on the seat beside him when he goes out in a car. When he journeyed to Cordoba last month, elaborate safety precautions were taken. The official announcement said he would go by plane. But the presidential train was made ready at Buenos Aires' Retiro station, and word quickly leaked out that he was really going by rail. Then, with any would-be assassins doubly confused, he departed by yacht up the Paraná River, later completing the trip...