Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than two years ago, most of Germany's imported labor worked at menial jobs in the building and construction industry. But recently the scarcity of domestic skilled labor has forced employers to train the unskilled foreign apprentices. Some German workers complain that the new arrivals work too hard, even though the labor shortage last year pushed wages up 9.6% while productivity rose only 2.9%. To keep the foreign employees happy, the state government and the Ford plant in Cologne plan to spend $12 million on new housing for 4,000 workers; other employers have hired Italian cooks...
...Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during Lent, Advent and other times of penance and mourning), his white lace rochets, silk sashes, and the splendid cappa magna - a 15-ft-long scarlet train worn on solemn liturgical occasions. As a member of the church's senate, a cardinal advises the Pope on church policy, helps run the Vatican's huge bureaucracy, and will elect one of his number to the papacy when John XXIII dies. But he is also a prince; letters...
Next day, carrying the empty suitcase, they went to Eisenach, the last railway stop before the West German border. The train pulled in, and the two rushed up to the platform, got an empty compartment. Bernd opened the suitcase; Maria assumed the prenatal position-head on chest. He carefully forced back her shoulder, got the lid closed by pressing it down with his knee. She gasped with pain as he belted the two straps. Then he moved the suitcase-which had been punctured in several places to give Maria air-into the corridor and returned to his compartment. Police...
Loudspeakers at the border control point of Warthe ordered all passengers to leave the train, with their luggage, for another check. Bernd leaped down to the platform and was about to pull off the suitcase when he saw that an East German railway guard was eying him. It was the same man Bernd had told he had no luggage. An African got off the train, too, and hoping he could not speak German, Bernd cried to him in broadest dialect: "Let me help you with your bag!" The baffled African, thinking Bernd was asking for help, obligingly took hold...
...returned to the platform, was horrified to see the suitcase was quivering so much that snow was being shaken off the top. Bernd frantically grabbed the suitcase-but the handle came off in his hand. Desperately, he hugged the case in his arms, heaved it back on the train and stumbled on beside...