Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grip of emotion. He has faced them before. Last week he faced them again. He had invited the Co-operative Republican Ladies of the Dauphin County Councils to come to Washington for lunch (at $2.50 a plate) at the Statler. Eight hundred joyfully accepted. They arrived on a special train, surged out, straightened their Kunkel ribbons, dabbed at their noses, spied Congressman Kunkel standing with his back to a Union Station pillar. They charged...
Then he returned to Korea for a whirlwind tour which made one correspondent who had been on Wendell Willkie's train in 1940 gasp: "Damned if this isn't the same thing...
...rebirth of a nation." He applied the forceps with characteristic vigor. At Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when a baby cried, the General went over and pinched...
...whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset. Workers on the Central Railway, which winds between the valley's forbidding mountain walls, insist on being taken home each night. Travelers through the valley dread to ride the railroad in the rainy season, for fear a landslide may maroon their train...
...Satterthwaite mission arrived at its destination after a train-car-horseback-and-foot journey, which involved crossing two mountain passes, 7,200 and 7,700 feet high. In Kathmandu they found a two-storied bungalow awaiting their occupancy, together with gifts including venison, fowls and fruits from the Maharaja. Their guest house, as well as various durbar halls, were decorated with the Nepalese flag (a double red pennant on which is inscribed a sun and moon), flying beside the Stars & Stripes which had only 13 stars...