Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sternly told: "If it is independence you have come for, you can have it now and face immediate withdrawal of French administrative and financial aid." Olympio protested that this was no way to treat a U.N. trusteeship. Agreeing that Olympio had a point, the French promised to help train the Togolese to take full control of currency, defense and diplomacy by 1960-if Olympio would keep the terms quiet until France and all its overseas territories had voted on the new constitution. Olympio agreed. Only after the referendum was over did he broadcast the happy news to his people...
...Peale read a highly critical article in Redbook quoting Theologians Liston Pope and Franklin Clark Fry, among others, as calling Peale's type of religion "very nearly blasphemous" and "a parody." As he read, Peale "felt something wince and shrivel inside of him." That night on the train, Peale wrote out his resignation as pastor of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church. After Peale's minister father died at 85, his stepmother Mary said, "Your father left a message for you ... He said, 'Tell Norman his message is right . . . just put his trust in Jesus Christ...
...some years, there have been reports that local lacrossemen and golfers train on liquor and late dates. Perhaps these reports are totally unfounded. But they may well have reached the ears of the men who decide Harvard athletic policy thus become involved in the recent "economy steps." Such, at least, is the current Dillon Field House scuttlebutt...
Flaming starkly in cold October air, the white fires of steel processing burn inexorably into the small hours of the morning. At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands...
...First World War. The Great War. We got shipped to Liverpool in 1918, train to Southhampton, boat to Le Havre, and in we went. Not much time to think. I was at the Marne, St. Quentin, Belleau Woods, the Wheatfields...