Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curiously touching in describing the son of the slums who "dreams the dreams of a child. And yet when he awakens, he awakens to a living nightmare." He was rather embarrassing in the sketch of another child, himself, who hears a train go by and dreams of faraway places. "It seems like an impossible dream." But a self-sacrificing father, a "gentle Quaker mother," a dedicated teacher, a minister, a courageous wife, loyal offspring, devoted followers?plus a cast of millions of voters?combine to put that boy on the train that stopped last week in Miami Beach, possibly...
...fact that Nixon spoke of himself as the hero of this American dream, even though his intent was plainly modest, seemed cloying to some. And the reference to a train whistle was an oddly old-fashioned note: trains do not symbolize escape and movement to today's young. Yet there could be little doubt that Nixon was sincere here, just as Lyndon Johnson is sincere when he talks about his years of poverty along the Pedernales. Certainly Nixon's audience in Miami knew what he was talking about, and responded...
...five years ago, he quickly set the former French colony on a course toward what he called "scientific socialism." His National Revolutionary Movement became the sole political party, and the members of its armed youth group, the Jeunesse, ruled the streets of Brazzaville. To guard the palace and to train militiamen, Massamba-Debat imported Cuban advisers. A good deal of economic aid and advice came from China and the Soviet Union, and the President paid a visit to Peking...
Determining the other coordinate is a more complicated matter of listening for a so-called Doppler shift in frequency. If the echo comes from the side of the planet spinning toward Earth, it will rise in frequency, just as the whistle of an approaching train seems to move up in pitch. If the reflection comes from the side rotating away from Earth, it will go down in frequency...
...Kosygin in London with L.B.J.'s approval. The P.M. handed the Russian a note, prepared with the help of a White House liaison man, proposing a bombing halt (phase A) to be followed, after a face-saving interval, by mutual de-escalation (phase B). Kosygin had boarded a train to Scotland when Johnson abruptly decided that the proposed interval was too long. The embarrassed Wilson was forced to chase Kosygin down with a new proposal...