Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, ship, train, automobile and bullock cart, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been campaigning all over the country, stirring up votes for India's four-month-long first general election. He had traveled 23,000 miles, made as many as ten speeches a day, addressed 25 million people. In fact, he had been just about everywhere but in his own constituency in Allahabad. There was no need to canvass Allahabad, he said rather airily...
...Business School. A new laboratory for applied science, to be known as the Gordon McKay Laboratory, is being built on Oxford Street. . . . With the completion of this (the latter) building we shall be able to increase our staff in several areas of engineering . . . it is our desire to train engineers and applied scientists of the highest caliber. For this reason, five special Gorden McKay fellowships for graduate study with a stipend of $2,000 each have been created to attract top-ranking students to Harvard...
...Egypt, trigger-happy Egyptian irregulars went after British military trains and the British military went after the irregulars. After one day's sporadic firing, the score was: one British military train shot up; three British casualties; 46 Egyptian guerrillas killed, wounded or captured...
...Committee to do so. Wiley said he had been "flooded with tips and leads" alleging "certain irregularities" in OAP, "questionable dealings and behind-the-scenes connivance." As he had told the Senate earlier, he wanted to know if it were true that OAP had turned into "a super gravy train" with gravy pouring down certain Democratic vests...
Wrong Buss. In Cairo, bidding farewell to his sweetheart, Moustafa Ibrahim, 16, kissed the pane of her train window, was fined $14 by a Moslem court for committing an "indecent public...