Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intricate workings of cause and effect, there come moments in every life when great consequences hang in shaky balance, to be tipped by a tiny mischance, a trivial decision. A man misses a train by half a minute, wanders into a bookstore while waiting for the next train, and picks up a book that might alter his life forever. Another, taking a walk in the country, comes to a fork in the lane, hesitates, chooses the left turn rather than the right, and meets the girl he will marry. Afterward, men often look back upon such events and call them...
Katanga and South Kasai, in fact, are the only places where Belgians are a serious threat to anybody's peace. There Moise Tshombe and Albert Kalonji employ "retired" Belgian officers to fly their planes, train their troops, plan their military attacks. In Katanga's government office, every Congolese minister has hired a Belgian as an "adviser." The Belgian government argues that the military men are there as private citizens and mercenaries, cannot be called back if they prefer to work for the Africans; it also insists it has no control over Union Minière, whose subsidies make...
Last week another nudger arrived in London. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was met by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as he arrived by special train at London's Victoria Station. They sped off to Admiralty House for the latest round of Anglo-German talks. Adenauer had come in his role of middleman between Britain and the Continent...
...national institute program for secondary and elementary school teachers acknowledges the fact that quantity will replace quality as long as enrollment continues to increase at the present rate. Summer conclaves and "follow-up seminars" throughout the school year would train top teachers in local school districts as leaders who would be given time off from regular duties to assist fellow teachers in applying new methods of English instruction...
Maribel Vinson Owen started her two daughters skating when they were two years old. Mrs. Owen had been nine times United States figure skating champion, and she hoped to train her daughters to succeed...