Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was indeed the Communist strategy, the tactic clearly was to cut off Phnom-Penh from outside sources of supplies and military aid. Last week the city was at times completely isolated on the ground, with all major highways and railroads closed down by Communist troops and blockades. The train route to Bangkok was severed when Communist troops halted two trains, one a heavily loaded freight, the other carrying passengers. They carried off 200 tons of rice, forcing the passengers to act as porters, then destroyed both locomotives with B40 rocket blasts. That line also runs through the provincial capital...
...which one could turn for reassurance. Now the magic does not seem to work any more. One source of comfort used to be the sheer size of the land: the vastness of America, surprising again and again no matter how often one had glimpsed it from plane or train, always promised that there was enough room for everyone, enough space to dwarf all factions and conflicts. Now the huge stretches seem oddly empty, even useless despite the abundance they produce, and one is all too conscious of the fact that our fate is being decided in the crowded cities...
Ducking Issues. In the final week of campaigning, Wilson, usually accompanied by his wife Mary, billowed through the hustings, laughing off barrages of eggs, bags of talcum powder, Tory hecklers and even a bolt of lightning that struck his train at Attenborough. Heath, whistling across the sceptred isle in an executive prop jet. plugged away at his efforts to swing 49 key marginal constituencies away from Labor. But Heath was unable to match Wilson's jaunty confidence. He did unbend enough toward the campaign's end to drink with workers in pubs and buss young girls. Nonetheless. Heath...
...Penn Central's passenger service has been a particular plague. The railroad still runs 1,280 passenger trains a day-35% of the nation's total and 75% of the remaining long-haul sched-u'es. By Penn Central accounting, round-trip income from one New York-St. Louis train, for example, recently averaged $5,295 a day; but wages and other operating costs ran to $10,191. To pare such losses, the Penn Central two months ago petitioned the ICC to end all passenger service west of Buffalo, N.Y., and Harrisburg, Pa. Indignant protests from localities...
Worse shocks were to follow. After they became engaged, Scott went to New York to launch his writing career. Zelda stayed home and continued to accept prom invitations from all over the South. On one foray to Georgia Tech she was met at the train by four students, each of whom she had told was to be her escort. During the same weekend she got "pinned" to a young golfer. Back in Montgomery, she thought better of it and sent the pin back with a nice note, which she absentmindedly addressed and mailed to Scott. There is plenty of reason...