Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...community-based organizations that can continue the struggles initiated by outside groups or specific leaders, notably King. Whether or not King and others are actually to blame for these failures is a difficult question to answer. The important point is that the integration leaders must share their responsibilities and train others to assume their roles when they leave a community...
Seasoned soldiers, baaing like sheep, flatly refused to fight. At Soissons, the men of the 370th Infantry Regiment stormed the railway station, captured a train, and headed for Paris. A whole division was so rotten with mutiny that it was cajoled into holding against the Germans only by the hand-wringing eloquence of its commanding officer. By June 1917, out of some 100 infantry divisions, the French high command could count on fighting obedience from only...
...then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army 13-car overland troop-supply train and power Navy landing craft, Marine hydrofoil boats and Air Force helicopters...
...openers, the plot presents a kindly old professor at Oxford who inexplicably accepts a bundle of boodle from the Russians and then jumps to his death from a speeding train. Was the dear old boy a traitor? Or was he a heuristic hero self-brainwashed by sensory deprivation...
Author Murdoch sets her novel in the form of a parody of 19th century romanticism. The heroine, a schoolteacher named Marian, agrees to take a job as governess in a country house on a remote British seacoast. When she alights from the train, the locals stare at her strangely; no, there is no taxi or bus that runs to Gaze Castle...