Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After she had put the roses on the grave, Alda Sizemore commenced the story of how Old Red the coon dog got run over by a train. "It was just awful," she sighed, and then she said, "but let me go get my husband. He tells it so much better, and he was there, after...
...Train killed Old Red," Ross Sizemore said. On Sunday, Nov. 18, 1974, he had been keen to go coon hunting--"wanted to go so bad I couldn't stand it" was the way he put it--but there was something disrespectful about hunting on Sunday so he made himself wait until after midnight. At 3 a.m. Sizemore and Old Red were on a train trestle when a southbound freight roared onto the bridge...
Since this is an obscure--indeed, fictional--town on the periphery of civilization, I tossed together some of my most cherished belongings, wrapped them in a kerchief, and threw them over my shoulder for sustenance in the hinterland. Several train changes and a limousine ride later (courtesy of my generous editor), I found myself at the famous Pig-N-A-Poke fair in down-town Tumbleweed...
...train from Moscow pulled into Sochi and disgorged passengers exhausted from the 850-mile, 30-hour journey. Waiting for them on the platform were about 100 residents of the lush Black Sea resort, some of them sweetly smiling, grandmotherly women who wanted nothing more than to share the genteel charm of their homes. "I have a nice little room to rent, a short walk to the sea, hot water, next door to a good restaurant," declared one. Two bone-weary women quickly began bidding furiously against each other for the room, even though neither had seen it, driving the price...
...they are widely tolerated. Some seaside landladies offer a fair deal, but others are hucksters conjuring up lyrical descriptions of properties that sound too good to be true. Often, they are. A Ukrainian woman found she had rented a deserted shack with no plumbing. Disheartened, she returned to the train station and put down a deposit for another room, but the address proved nonexistent. "I'm sick of the whole idea of vacation," she said. "I want to go home, but I can't buy a train ticket...