Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grants to countries that are notoriously careless about their internal economic houses; at the same time, he wants a more liberal policy than the "showcase nation." Briefly, his theory is that aid funds can in themselves act in certain cases to spur economic reform and planning, and to train reformers and planners--the assumption behind the Alliance for Progress. He is a man of tougher mind and greater vision than the President ever gave him credit for, and it is time for a resurrection of his ideas...
...soon begins to speculate on small and large moral questions. Sample problem for a border guard: A man is escaping. I must shoot. But should I shoot to kill? Sample problem for a railroad switchman: It is 1956. Hungary is in revolt. The Russians are rushing in troops by train. I can delay them by not shunting off local traffic. How long? Four hours? Six hours? Is it worth...
...years old, often newly married, with a couple of yoke of oxen and no fear at all. On a good day they could make 14 miles, and after two months of walking or jolting along, they still had 1,500 to go. When a baby was born, the wagon train would stop for a few hours. They were not the sort of people to die on the trail, and amazingly few did. In fact, the skeletons that are strewn all over the emigrants' path in Stewart's book are almost entirely the remains of oxen, milch cows...
...salaries, even to design Packer uniforms. Once the whip was in his hand, he set it singing. "This is a violent sport," he told the Packers. "To play in this league, you've got to be tough -physically tough and mentally tough." He chased grandstand kibitzers off the training field, declared the rowdier Green Bay taverns off-limits, slapped $25 fines on players who showed up as little as one minute late for practice, $50 fines on those who broke his 11 p.m. training-camp curfew. He ordered injured Packers to run in practice ("You're preparing yourselves...
Indians explained that no planes were flying because of the Chinese border war; eventually they provided second-class train tickets for the two-day trip. At that, Ambassador Paz angrily complained to the Indian protocol office, which put the team on a flight to Madras-just in time for the monsoon rains. "When we finally got there,'' said Coach Contreras, "the boys were afraid to eat the food, and were losing weight...