Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American soldiers out of Korea, and let the South Koreans take over; most G.I.S agree with him on that score. But that this can be accomplished in a year's time is pure hogwash. It takes time, tradition and experience to build an army of 3,000,000, train them and equip them. It is plainly only wishful thinking, compounded of impatience and lack of foresight...
Stevenson was thrown on the defensive by Eisenhower's Korean speech and the General's promise to go to Korea. As the Stevenson campaign train pushed across New York and Massachusetts, worried Stevenson strategists put their heads together to devise a counterblow. The result of their deliberation was a passage added to Stevenson's Boston speech on Communism less than an hour before it was delivered. Said the Democratic candidate : "The root of the Korean problem does not lie in Korea-it lies in Moscow. If the purpose of the general's trip is to settle...
...town gathered at the depot, high-school bands playing John Philip Sousa, the kids excused from school excitedly scrambling over freight cars and station buildings for a better look. These talks were far from polished; Ike's grammar could be hair-raising. The correspondents on his campaign train gleefully kept score of his cliches; but Eisenhower somehow can get away with cliches. When he says "I love this land," or "I am one of you," the words do not sound empty. (Although Ike could never approach Franklin Roosevelt's ability to make a cliche-e.g., "I hate...
...Issues. As the Eisenhower train rolled through the Midwest and on toward the West Coast, the land-green and golden in the fall sunshine-gave a measure of Eisenhower's task. For it was prosperous land; the' barns were trim, the houses were freshly painted and had that indefinable look a house wears when its people are not in want. It was Eisenhower's job to show what was beneath this prosperity, and beyond it. He had to show that the larder was not so full as it seemed, and that distant places like Korea or Indo...
...gave four speeches that afternoon in four hours, each speech completely different and sprinkled with remarks that could not have been prepared in advance, but which were provoked by signs that people in the audience hoisted. The crowds were good, their reactions better, and everyone on the train was elated as the Presidential Special pulled into South Station for the real work of the day, the governor's speech at Mechanics Hall...