Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose--to keep up freshman interest in the game, as well as to condition and train the first-year men for futures with the varsity. The method--to keep all the Yardlings, almost every man of the 90-odd on the squad, in constant action throughout the season...
...train swerved off the main line and sped down a seldom-used spur leading between low hills, straight to the German border. On D-day minus one, Truksa had motorcycled to Asch and thrown a switch...
...Switch Thrown. In the train, those passengers who were not in on the plot became alarmed. Women tried to soothe screaming babies. A toothless old man jumped to his feet, staring wildly out the window. "You should have seen the coal smoke and soot from that locomotive," he said. "It came in the window two fingers thick...
...train lurched through the Asch station and raced on through the crowded freight yards. Comrade Conductor Beb rushed for the emergency brake and pulled it. Nothing happened: Engineer Konvalinka had done his job well. Beb ran to one of the hand brakes, but the tight-lipped men who had been watching the brakes elbowed him away...
Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...