Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Train. The setting is occupied Paris in August 1944. With the Allied liberation at hand, an ascetic Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) orders his troops into the Jeu de Paume Museum to crate up Van Goghs, Utrillos, Manets, Cezannes, Picassos-altogether some 1,200 impressionist and postimpressionist canvases, destined for a rail trip to Berlin. "Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it," says Scofield. Given secret orders to stop the train, a French railroad inspector...
...contingent from Washington was held up for six hours Wednesday because a train crew in Atlanta refused to work on the same train with cars of civil rights demonstrators...
What's Noble? Journey into the Night is particularly hallucinatory. Two men are taking an overnight train to Paris. One tells the other in a friendly way that he is a cannibal and intends to eat his companion as soon as he falls asleep. Ridiculous, naturally. No, really, the first man is quite serious. He opens a small satchel and brings out a salt shaker and tools for dismembering a body...
...Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development, which would serve as "a focal point for thought and innovation and imagination about the problems of our cities." The new department would absorb the present Housing and Home Finance Agency, help cities draw up metropolitan-area plans for orderly growth, train local planners, administer federal grants to states and cities for planning studies, and support research into new building techniques to reduce overall construction costs...
There was another guy in the station, trying to get a train too, and he caught my eye. I turned. He beckoned with his finger. "Yes," I said...