Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston School Committee this week unanimously approved a plan to train teachers to detect juvenile delinquency, or tendencies toward it, in grade school children. The project closely follows a proposal made in a recent book by Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and his wife, Dr. Eleanor Glueck, a research criminologist at the Law School...
Alexander Clark, assistant director of the office, thinks the "100-percenters" are wrong, but for different-reasons. He asks the basic question: "Are you going to spoon-feed your man with a lot of jobs that you hand to him on a platter, or are you going to train him so he can go out and find a job for himself...
...Vishinsky: "The decisions taken were for the preparation of a new war by the Anglo-American bloc." Was he going to retire? Quipped white-haired Vishinsky, 68: "Qui vivra verra [He who lives shall see]." All but one of the satellite lackeys was at hand. Five minutes before the train was due to leave, U.N. Czech Delegate Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova came breathlessly galloping down the platform of the cavernous Gare de l'Est, thrust a Cellophane box of orchids into Vishinsky's hand...
Next morning on the German-Czech border, Vishinsky stepped out of the comfortable Orient Express, went aboard a dingy second-class Czech train decorated with a huge red star. A German border official noted that Mrs. Vishinsky's hair, described as black in her passport, had become a coppery red in Paris...
...Commissioner to Germany John J. McCloy, who likes his off-duty muscle-flexing (tennis, touch football), took his wife & two children for skiing on Kreuzeck Mountain in the Bavarian Alps. First day out, McCloy took a tumble, finished the run on rescue sled and cable car, boarded his special train to Munich, where Army doctors announced he had a minor ankle fracture...