Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided whether to run. Then, standing before a Portland Republican club, he made what sounded like an announcement: "If Republicans get out [and work], there isn't any doubt of my election." When the applause and laughter .subsided, Bob Taft quickly got back on the maybe train by indicating that it was just a slip, a carryover from his last Senate campaign. "I mean there's no doubt in my mind we can win," he said...
...recent morning, a naval officer in civilian dress stepped off a train at a fog-shrouded New England seaport and climbed into a waiting limousine. The car sped through the quiet streets and out into the misty countryside. A short while later, in a well-guarded brick building, the Navy man was speaking in harshly urgent tones to a handful of scientists and shipbuilders gathered around a conference table. The officer's name: Captain Hyman George Rickover. His job: to direct the building of the U.S. Navy's first atomic submarine...
...week's end the crowds were already gathering. In response to manifestoes issued by the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), provincial workers were beginning to stream into the capital. Transportation by train, plane, ship or bus was free. When the great day came, free buses and taxis would be waiting at piers and railway stations. Also free to the visitors: food, drinks, futbol games, boxing matches, variety shows, movies...
Last week some 2,000 Protestant Christians (and some lay Catholics) came to Agape by car, bus, train, motorcycle and foot to help dedicate its main building, a long rectangle of gray stone, light wood and glass, which for the present will be a combination refectory, meeting place and prayer hall...
...bound to a ship's mast during a blizzard so he could observe the snow), Steer had a morbid fear of drafts, never went out in bad weather; on landscape sorties, he carried along a platform to keep his feet dry. To make sure of respectful treatment from train porters and inn servants, he lugged his painting gear in a cricketer...