Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long last, Tom wangled leave to visit his wife. Last week, Ada was waiting with their 42-year-old daughter at Waterloo Station, as a heavily mustached man of 71 elbowed through the crowd leaving an incoming train. Ada prodded her daughter. "That's Dad," she said. Tom planted a quick kiss on his wife. "Hello, love," he said. "How've you been...
...Army, the tough, patient professionals who train recruits are not generally given to talkativeness, and Master . Sergeant Hubert Lee, 36, was quieter than most. After six months, even his fellow instructors at Fort Sill, Okla. knew only that he came from Mississippi, was a 13-year man, had fought in Europe and Korea. He wore the Silver Star for gallantry. But when he was asked how he got it, Lee always begged off. "I'm not very good about telling combat stories," he would...
...enemy seems to be using "MIG Alley" (northwestern Korea) to train novices in regular cycles, removing each class when it gets fully seasoned. But each class is a little better than its predecessor...
...fascinated by gadgets. He once built himself a camera modeled on a fish eye, and wandered all over town snapping pictures, just to see what the city would "look like to a fish." He took up painting, wrote slick fiction with Arthur Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing...
...Columbian Limited (Columbia). The record company says that this piece "can be used as realistic live background sounds for model and toy trains, or enjoyed for the pleasant excitement train sounds can give." Save for some transition dialogue by two children, and the conductor's calls, the recording is all train, chugs relentlessly for two sides...