Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were written by Mississippi Negroes who were students in this summer's freedom school program. Most of these first appeared in the Freedom News, a mimeographed bulletin put out by the Holly Springs Freedom School. Nearly all the other pieces are from a similar publication, the Benton County Freedom Train...
...time to vote, Don't be afraid. this is what we've been asking for so don't close your door in the freedom worker's face. Aug. 14,1964 written by a mother of seven children, who be- came editor of the Benton County Freedom Train...
Along with the evidence, purportedly extracted from the 26 notebooks, came snickers. The Western agents, charged the Soviet press, were so "amateurish" and "clumsy" that the whole train knew they were spies-despite their rather incredible claim that they were Olympic athletes bound for Tokyo. They never left their compartment unguarded, refused to fraternize with their fellow passengers, and, weighed down with long-lens cameras, they ignored the conductor's admonitions not to take pictures out of the windows. At one station, jeered the Moscow press, they were so busy shooting a siding full of military boxcars that they...
China watchers, who have ironically dubbed it "the campaign to train a million Maos," deem it the most important political drive in Chinese Communism's brief history. Mao is not only racing time but also Khrushchev's version of consumer Communism. As Peking sees it, the Chinese younger generation must be saved from the dangerous heresy that it is better to be fed than...
...stage version, an express train stops unexpectedly at Guellen, a poverty-stricken village somewhere in Central Europe. Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin. She has returned to her birthplace seeking revenge. She offers a fortune to Guellen and its citizens in exchange for the life of one man, now a local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made...