Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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bring in "hard-core disadvantaged unemployed persons" from the community and train them for "permanent employment in meaningful occupations...
...train a limited number of Harvard employees for promotion to better jobs...
Perspire freely, ladeezandgentlemun, at death-defying acts of the imagination: a man is caught copulating with his dead wife and cries out at the loss of a book marker. Murder in a train station is erased when the stationmaster sets back the clock. An office worker outwits a homicidal elevator...
...woman on a train is brought to realize the emptiness of her married life through confrontation with two old spinsters-once childhood friends. Each of the three is bringing home dead or dying relatives. Cornelia is excluded from her accustomed level of Memphis society because her husband is Jewish; she has no children. In parting Cornelia says to one spinster, "I suppose you'll be met by a hearse . . . and Patty will be met by an ambulance-and I'll be met by Jake." This sentence "was one of those sentences Cornelia began without knowing how it would...
...passenger told several girls that he would stage similar subway happenings in his home town of San Francisco. A graduate student in electrical engineering at M.I.T. continued on the train past his own stop, insisting that he be informed of the next event. Several phone numbers were received from other travelers...