Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner or later I'm the punch line. Life is just the way it is - the thereness of it. The gift of arthritis. The gift of heart attack. The gift of the isness of life." The speaker was a lecturer at the Christian Faith and Life Community, a training center for undergraduate students of the University of Texas at Austin. His woebegone view of things, he warned, should not lead to despair but to Christian salvation. The man willing to accept "what is ugly and cruel and guilty as well as the contrary" is receiving Christ's message...
...band of professional hecklers of management. At General Electric's meeting, austere Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner endured an almost continuous harangue from Mrs. Wilma Soss, president of the Federation of Women Shareholders, who lectured him on everything from selling appliances to the difficulties of getting to Schenectady by train, peremptorily bade him "keep quiet" when he tried to interrupt. Texaco's Chairman Augustus C. Long was visibly rankled by a woman who accused him of not fighting hard enough in defense of the oil industry's 27% depletion allowance. "When are you going to flex your muscles...
...result was the famous "March on Rome." In reality, Mussolini arrived by train a day ahead, resplendent in black shirt, spats and a bowler. Then he called in his blackshirted squadristi, who arrived by suburban train and were permitted to parade. Mussolini posted himself at their head for the benefit of photographers recording the event for history. "What a character," said Donna Rachele Mussolini, his faithful, dowdy wife, when told of these heroic events...
...from M.I.6, Britain's overseas intelligence branch, the government learned that the Red queens-they have long since parted-might be leaving Moscow, swore out warrants for their arrest under Britain's Official Secrets Act. At week's end, after checking every train, plane and ship from Russia, British police and intelligence agents from Accra to Zanzibar were still waiting. Some highly placed Britons hoped they would wait a long, long time...
...them, Hutch assembles his life's savings (87?), lays in the necessary provisions (eleven peanut-butter sandwiches), and shinnies up the tailgate of a truck bound for Fort Lauderdale, where the Yankees train. When he gets there, Hutch ducks past the doorman of the Yankee Clipper Hotel, falls asleep in Mickey's room, wakes up to see two mountains of muscle frowning down at him. "G-g-gee!" Hutch stutters. "M-Mickey Man'le an' R-Roger Maris...