Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...express trains bear the name Orient, but only one (the Direct-Orient) makes the 1,889-mile journey to Istanbul that links Paris and the West with the gateway to the East. Wagons-Lits still operates sleeping cars on this train, which goes along a southerly route that bypasses Bucharest...
...track. His grown son is a layabout who seems more interested in petty rackets than honest work. His daughter (Sylva Koscina), already embittered at having been forced to marry the store clerk who seduced her, has a stillborn child. While Andrea is brooding about that misfortune his train runs down a suicide. Afterward, the engineer takes a few drinks to steady himself, narrowly averts a worse disaster when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that destroys the fag end of his pride, Andrea scabs during a strike, estranging himself from friends and family...
...doubt. But there should also be no doubt that the protesting students are NOT questioning our soldier's fighting ability, nor his courage or conviction. Rather, in their haste to indicate their abhorrence and hate of war they mistakenly attack the symptoms of war (Marines arriving by train in San Francisco for embarkation to Vietnam) instead of attacking the causes of war (breakdown of diplomacy and communications; ignorance and poverty; charismatic and poor leadership; adherence to diehard, hard-line communism; desire for the better things of life which the normal and present channels of growth can not immediately provide...
...Tell us about the great train robbery, Mr. Inspector," Lennon answers...
...point that it becomes coercive -- when students lie down on the tracks to block a troop train -- protest changes from essential ingredients to something alien to the liberal tradition," he said...