Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correct by hindsight his first impressions. They are not without humor, as in the episode involving Lord Davies, a Welsh magnate who was Macmillan's companion on a mission to Finland. Macmillan's diary records the event thus: "Lord Davies has left his teeth in the train. "Lord Davies has lost his passport...
...suburb of Petah Tiqva, and two weeks ago another guerrilla band shot it out with police near the city's international airport. Terrorists also blew up the water reservoir of a kibbutz in Upper Galilee, almost succeeded in cutting the rail line to Jerusalem and derailed a passenger train in the Negev...
...help more U.S. infants survive, Congress has authorized $35 million for maternity and infant care in fiscal 1968. And HEW hopes to set up and train a corps of physicians' assistants to provide more thorough care to mothers and infants in low-income areas...
...wedding," went one. "They threw a Chinaman with every grain of rice." Or: "I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that we're broadcasting from NBC's new Hollywood studios ... a big beautiful building. They tell me it cost more than Mrs. Roosevelt's annual train fee." And the one about the excessive gadgetry in the new cars: "I pushed one button and opened a WPA bridge in Salt Lake City...
...movie's weakest point, ironically, is its self-conscious filmishness. The black-and-white photography by Conrad Hall may be the best of the year, but Brooks tricks it up with flashy dissolves-a bus becomes a moving train, a prostitute metamorphizes into Perry's mother-that give the film a slick and slippery surface. In Cold Blood, moreover, unnecessarily belabors the arguments against capital punishment by introducing a sob-brother journalist who wearyingly articulates the message...