Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Cliff. Whole blocks of shanties were burned to the ground; in one house, seven out of a family of eleven died in the flames. Fleeing Indians were struck down in the streets as they tried to escape. Seven were flung bodily from a railroad train. From the settlement at Cato Manor, Indian women & children by the hundreds fled shrieking into the tropical bush, while others were pulled from their homes to be beaten and raped...
Stop & Look. Near Lisco, Neb., Benny Ovido stopped his car on a railroad crossing to make certain the tracks were clear, jumped free just before the car was demolished by a train...
...Truman was up, Pressed, and out on the street before the sun, and before breakfast. Trailed by Secret Service men, he strode 20 blocks to the Union Station, met Bess and Margaret on the 7:50 B. &O. train from Independence. It was the beginning of an up-before-the-sun, busy-every-minute, presidential week. The President seemed to enjoy...
Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes. The most damaging hit the mill town of Warren, Ark. (pop. 10,000) just at dinner time, sounding, said one survivor, "like a brand-new diesel train going full blast across Iowa...
...Crimson will catch a train tomorrow morning for New York. After facing the Lions, it gets a layoff of almost a month for exams...