Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting into action. He is executive committee chairman of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, vice president of the Association of American Universities. A former English professor, he headed Wayne University, served at N.Y.U. before going to Illinois in 1955. He goes to meetings by train, and "a flow of memos goes off in every direction when I get home...
Some of the Fellows who study here in their particular fields of reporting do so for good reasons and with good results. One of the intentions of the Nieman program is to train competent journalists in special areas; in science, medicine, and economics, for example, an academic refresher is essential if the reporter hopes to talk the same language as the people he is talking...
...sensible shoes, sturdy capes and shapeless hats. Toddlers are carried. Teen-agers desert friends and transistor radios. The whole family trudges, pausing now and then for a spell of tiefatmen (deep breathing), to say hello to the Müllers (walking in the other direction), or to let Papa train his binoculars on an interesting bird, until in the late afternoon everyone collapses at a cafe for hot chocolate or coffee and pastry...
...calling for secession from India and crying that only a bloody revolution could solve Kerala's problems. With things getting out of control, the other parties urged their followers to return to their homes. It was too late. Near Cannanore, a mob of 10,000 stopped a freight train and looted it. In the capital of Trivandrum an angry throng broke through police lines, then wrecked a railway station. Elsewhere rioters tore up rail track, built barricades across roads and highways, taunted police with the cry: "Shoot us or give us rice!" Police fired warning shots over the heads...
...work camps. The trouble with U.M.T. is that it would be far too expensive and inefficient, would produce more young men (about 2,000,000 a year) than anyone could possibly use-and would still force officials to make a choice between who would fight and who would merely train...