Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the main emphasis of the Center will be on research, its members will also teach in seminars on related topics. There will be fellowships and research assistantships available to train young scholars to undertake reseach in the field...
...General Robert Kennedy and his family will also leave on a brief vacation-of a somewhat different sort. With their four older children, Bobby and Ethel will travel west to Washington to fish, hike, and then camp out in the Olympic Mountains ("America's last frontier"). They have trained for the trip by frequent games of touch football (and in Ethel's case, by immersion tests in the Kennedy swimming pool); they may also be accompanied by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who may not be a touch footballer but knows a thing or two about mountains...
...Mexico. Oñate set out for his new domain leading an army of 400 Spanish settlers and soldiers, 83 wagons and carts, 7,000 head of livestock, eight priests and a poet named Villagrá, who wrote a flowery epic about the expedition. Leaving the wagon train near the site of modern El Paso, Don Juan and a party of adventurers pressed up the Rio Grande. In July 1598 they reached two Indian pueblos, Yuque and Yunque, on opposite sides of the river. They chased the Indians out of Yuque and moved in, renaming the place San Juan...
Harvey admitted, however, that no politician would ever support abolition of the "draft gravy train" which provides office jobs for hundreds of civilians...
...meticulous politeness Sam Newhouse does not quite conceal an oversupply of nervous energy. He characteristically sits on the edge of a chair; and he has the attitude of a man who is just about to dash for a train. He is a chronic door opener and reacher-for-the-check. He generally keeps several $100 bills in his wallet so that he can pay cash for the dinner tab wherever he eats...