Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall, he started down the Pan American Highway in a jeep with four other Americans, among them Katherine Wallis, whom MaCoy married the next year, and her mother. When the highway became impassable, MaCoy wanted to go on, but the others didn't. The others got on a train with the jeep; he invested $40 in a horse. After a day on horseback, he decided he preferred walking, sold the horse for $28. The second day he walked for 14 hours, changed his mind again. Eventually, after borrowing other mounts from a Maryknoll father and an American doing research...
...lives in a three-dimensional world with a two-dimensional mind," says the professor. "In war, for example, besides the horizontal battles of tanks and men, you have airplanes, parachutists and submarines. Men who train to be officers should play my game." Kogbetliantz perfected three-dimensional chess in 1918, when he was teaching in Moscow. He thinks the game is flourishing in Russia...
...went to Buffalo last week to wind up a client's antitrust action. The hearing was shorter than he expected. Lawyer Patterson canceled an afternoon train reservation, boarded the doomed Convair...
White is a rockbound New Englander who still believes that "the best thing in New York is the 5 o'clock train to Boston." White also believes that "it's an economic crime for us to move out." But American Woolen may be forced to join the trek of New England mills south because "New England is at a great competitive disadvantage." Labor is cheaper in the South-up to 40? an hour less-but even more important "is the amount of work employees give for that wage." Man-hour productivity is so much greater in the South...
...trifling with an FBI man); after long illness ; in Covington, Ky. Originally a druggist, German-born Remus became a criminal lawyer, turned to bootlegging after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself on a plea of insanity. Sent to a mental hospital, he quickly proved his sanity and won his freedom by invoking the testimony of the prosecution's three...