Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama is fired by a major talent: Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style), who also plays the title role as an endearingly wrongheaded train engineer beset by commonplace woes...
...parking lot is next to the local train station and is used by commuters. Secret Service agents were reported to be checking all the cars in the lot for more pamphlets this afternoon...
...Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against...
...grasped the knife in his jeans. Willie split the trouts' bellies with his knife, washed them in the cold water of the brook, and wiped the blood off his knife with a skunk-cabbage leaf. She had red hair and her blouse was open between her breasts. The train was going through the tunnel and it made a glumph sound as it went in and the wail of the whistle came out way back there, whoo whoo whoooooo. He heard the man fit the key in the lock and go inside very softly as if he were ashamed. Adele...
...aide said Dodd is convinced, however, that the M2M's proposals violate several federal laws. Dodd maintains the M2M's plan to train troops for the Viet Cong is a direct violation of a statute prohibiting Americans' enlistment in foreign armies engaged in combat with U.S. forces...