Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman was in town for a visit and the brothers lolled around Blair House a few evenings talking about the crops, the cattle and the chickens back home on the farm. At the President's press conference, a reporter asked whatever happened to his threat to hop a train and carry the Fair Deal issues back to the people. Well, said the President, that one was always just on the shelf and maybe it wouldn't be necessary...
...farmer named Derek Naves has a promising stubble after four months of treatment. Derek lives in Vars-seveld, 75 miles from Een. Once a week he gets up at 4 o'clock and starts his arduous pilgrimage-an hour by bike, an hour by bus, two hours by train, another half-hour by bus, and then a last 20 minutes on the bike. Twenty-nine bald and bewigged girls, taking van Rooijen's treatments, have sought out household jobs in Een. As a result Een, unlike the rest of Holland, has no servant shortage...
...Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick up one of her first and worst tantrums. When she learned that Elizabeth's dress was to have a train and hers none, she raised such an unholy uproar that the King himself called in the dressmaker and ordered trains for both girls' dresses...
...Otis Lee Wiese, 44-year-old editor and publisher of McCall's, got a telephone call from Hyde Park. The caller, whom Wiese has never identified, cried: "Come quick! The lady's feelings are hurt." Wiese quickly decoded "lady" into Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and took the next train north, convinced that somehow the rival Ladies' Home Journal had underestimated the power of a woman...
...theory behind this seeming nonchalance. Bolles believes that a crewman, if forced to row his heart out for months on end, will go stale both physically and psychologically. The task is not to build him up to superhuman proportions by sheer foot-pounds of energy expended, but to train him to peak efficiency at the exact time the race is scheduled...