Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's President Vincent Auriol entered the picture when the presidential train stalled on a hill during a tour of the war-damaged section of eastern France. While waiting for a second engine to come to the rescue, an onlooker took the opportunity to introduce a tiny citizen to his admiring President...
...Vienna, it was the same. "It was a Sunday, and people were out, either bathing or boating on the Danube or playing games . . . There were great crowds of people . . . sometimes just along the railroad track, at other times at crossroads or little stations or where the train [from the airport] would go through a small village -in all the backyards and up on the roofs of the houses there were masses of people waving handkerchiefs, towels, flags, everything . . . In some little places signs woven out of flowers that said 'Welcome' were put up. You would...
...three-car private diesel train pulled out of suburban Mehlem, five miles south of Bonn, a mixed crowd of Germans and Americans cheered the ruddy-faced American waving from a coach window. John J. McCloy, 57, retiring U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, was on his way home after three long years as proconsul, diplomat and military adviser to the most battered, most divided and most important land in Europe...
...truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...