Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their support from middle-and upper-income groups-doctors, dentists, merchants and industrialists, many of them leaders in their own fields and genuinely concerned about the position of the U.S. in the cold war. Some of the rightists have even taken up arms: the Minutemen (TIME, Nov. 3) regularly train with firearms in preparation for the day when the Communists may take over the country...
...Avenue flavor. The brick is a coarse, inexpensive article that is thrown out by the speaker so that others will throw in something more valuable like jade, in the form of criticisms and suggestions. It is something like saying of an idea: "Let's put it on the train and see if it gets off at Hunan...
Still combining pleasantries with threats, Khrushchev turned from local farm conditions to international politics, met for luncheon near the booming Siberian industrial city of Novosibirsk with Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, who had traveled 2,380 miles by auto, train and jet to find out whether his country's delicate neutrality was about to be shattered...
...early pace. He has had little choice. As unemployment in Canada rose last winter to its highest since the Depresion '30s (leaving 11.3% of the labor force without jobs), the Tories' political stock sharply tumbled; though the economy has since taken a turn for the better, in train with the U.S. recovery, Diefenbaker's fortunes have clearly failed to rebound...
Hollywood: The Golden Years (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Gene Kelly narrates an hourlong special about the silent era, from 1903's The Great Train Robbery to 1927's The Jazz Singer...