Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARVN soldiers and the unfortunate civilians who had hitched a ride in the military vehicles. The area, reported TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, was "hauntingly quiet except for the occasional report of artillery in the distance. It was like stumbling on the site of a burned-out massacred wagon train left in a remote Wyoming valley...
...Jesse and Cole, led by Alan Pinkerton himself and clearly modeled after the superposse in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The difference is that this posse never does make any real headway. The deputies seem to spend all their time glowering and oiling their rifles, and when the train finally stops, Jesse and Cole are never in the neighborhood...
...Only two days before, a southbound train had entered one end of the mile-long Vierzy tunnel 60 miles northeast of Paris, at the same time as a northbound train roared in from the other end. Unknown to either engineer, part of the tunnel's roof had fallen in. The two trains hit the rockfall, which acted like a trampoline, hurtling them up to the roof at 60 m.p.h.; cars at the rear telescoped into a mass of tangled metal. Rescue workers braved the possibility that more of the darkened tunnel's roof might collapse and worked with...
...Independence were at pains to point out, a reasonable complaint, and one that took time to ripen: "All experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses . . ." That complaint got action. In fact, in an adversary proceeding that is the essence of democracy, every election poses a complaint and offers a remedy of sorts. This process of criticism is supposed to hone down, and largely has, those principles or procedures or institutions that have proved...
...false image and in person everything is real. What the camera does is simply magnify. You are what you are and you can't hide it. Anyway, how much did you know about a candidate when he waved to you from the back of a train?" Using video clips from training sessions with various high-level candidates (Nixon, James Buckley, Robert Wagner), Ailes demonstrated such tricks as bouncing the eyes downward when changing your gaze from one camera to eliminate that startled-fawn look...