Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Train" Peters coasted to an easy 11-2 victory over defending G.B.L. champs, Northeastern yesterday at Kent St. Field. The lanky flamethrower scattered seven hits, keeping the perenially tough Huskies off the scoreboard until...
McCarty, who gained fame by zeroing Boston University early in the season, picked up two outs before he lost his control. He issued three consecutive free passes, setting the stage for the Big Train...
Each week, by plane, train, truck - and local mail carriers, TIME is rushed to its readers in 185 countries. And sometimes, given unexpected help, the magazine's circulation reaches far beyond our far-reaching distribution system. For more than three years, 37 readers on an isolated Pacific island have been receiving TIME in, of all things, a tin can. The copies arrive courtesy of William H. Dame, the gift-shop manager on the Matson Lines' S.S. Monterey, who loads a watertight container with recent issues each time his ship passes the volcanic isle on its transpacific trips. Waiting...
What Twiggy is doing for fashions, a new breed of audacious British thieves is doing for crime. British crime has become both more frequent and more spectacular ever since the Great Train Robbery of 1963 whetted rascals' appetites for neatly executed commando-type operations-and titillated the imagination of millions with tales of rags to riches. British robbers these days are getting away with an incredible $840,000 in loot each week...
...asked specifically for a colored regiment," dreaming of how he could teach Negro troops "English or history or geography" and monitor the happy spirituals that he fancied they would sing around their fires. He is ill prepared for the reality he encounters: dirty, sly, half-slaves whom he must train to fire fieldpieces without live ammunition. Thus he hides the gradual erosion of his soul by secretly rehearsing the noble death he plans to die in defense of Fort Pillow-protecting his cowed troops, daring the Rebels to kill him, instructing them to let his poor charges live...