Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roads to offer alternative routes if the bombings resumed. Antlike swarms of work gangs took an average of only 48 hours to repair bombed roads, as little as 72 hours to fix shattered rail lines. Where the rail damage was too extensive to repair, work battalions often ran one train up to a bombed-out stretch, then transferred its entire cargo to a train waiting on the other side...
With a chuff of steam and a skirl of wheels, the aged black locomotive pulled out of Danang, carrying 500 passengers bound for Hue. Soon it began to climb toward the mist-shrouded Ai Van Pass. As the train reached the crest and began its freewheeling descent, the passengers relaxed-prematurely. Suddenly the rails snapped like broken rubber bands as a Viet Cong pressure mine exploded. When the smoke cleared, the passengers-fortunately uninjured-clambered wearily through the brambles to nearby Route 1 and thumbed or hiked their way into Hue. It was business as usual on South Viet...
...been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
...boys' innocent vulgarity is rooted in a world of gossipy housewives, aged parents clinging to tradition, working fathers uneasily eying their retirement years, young lovers so full of Oriental reticence that they pour all their tenderness into discussing the shapes of clouds while waiting for a commuters' train...
Coach Bill McCurdy explained that he didn't ask his runners to train during exam period, and that he'd leave it up to each of them to decide whether he wanted to compete. "We won't know exactly who'll be running until Saturday night." McCurdy said...