Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the airport, the troops fanned out through downtown Kano, hunting down Ibos in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their Land Rovers to the railroad station, where more than 100 Ibos were waiting for a train, and cut them down with automatic-weapons fire...
Somehow, several thousand Ibos survived the orgy, and all had the same thought: to get out of the North. Many were packed onto a Southbound train. The management of large companies operating in Kano chartered every available plane. All told, 1,400 Ibos were flown out of Kano alone last week...
Rome's seminary system began to take shape after the 16th century Council of Trent, which ordered every diocese to support and properly train its own priests. In 1552 St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, set up the Gregorian. Eventually, Catholic prelates from other countries created col leges in Rome so that their brightest seminarians could study under the Greg's good Jesuit teachers or with the Dominicans at the Angelicum (founded in 1580). Once back home, graduates soon found that a degree from Rome was the sort of clerical credential that led to quick promotion. Study...
Moving with the velocity of a milk train, the proposed merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a single 20,000-mile system to be known as the Penn Central rickety-racked past another way station last week. Led by the Erie-Lackawanna, eight smaller Eastern railroads* had requested a three-judge federal court in New York to delay the merger's effective date. The court, by a 2-1 vote, sided with the Penn Central...
Even with a highball from the appeals court, the Penn Central will have to maintain its milk-train speed for a while. The protesting railroads announced that they were taking the case to the Supreme Court; they petitioned Justice John Harlan, who as judicial overseer of the U.S. Second Circuit handles such appeals from New York, to grant a stay so that the full court can hear their arguments...