Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim, wearing an Eisenhower jacket and old slacks, stood near a pole in the center of the coach. He carried a cane if he was playing an invalid; if feigning drunkenness, he smelled of liquor and carried a bottle tightly wrapped in a brown paper bag. After the train departed the station, the victim suddenly staggered, collapsed and lay on the floor...
...help received by the victims was impressive," write the psychologists. "The victim with the cane received spontaneous help on 62 of the 65 trials. Even the drunk received help on 19 of 38 trials." In fact, some passengers were so solicitous in helping the victim out of the train, remaining with him at the station or insisting on finding him an ambulance, that getting on with the next trial became a sticky problem...
...sometimes you jump off the subway, in the Dover Street Station say, and you're waiting to change onto another train and so is this other guy. Just you and the other guy, waiting, and he's starting to look at you, and you just know he's watching...
...quarter past two in the morning. Charlie's wife stands alone in the Scollay Square subway station clutching a cold pastrami sandwich. She hears an oncoming train. She winds-up to throw. But with a wooosh the train has come and gone at 70 m.p.h. Russian dressing oozes out onto the still-trembling tracks...
...kind of music they were now making, though it was still loud and eruptive, like the life they led. "It was like a volcano going off." Most people agreed, including Actor Marlon Brando, who once told them: "The two loudest things I've ever heard are a freight train going by and Bob Dylan and The Band...