Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the hot morning they streamed into Baton Rouge-wool-hatted farmers, "Cajuns" with whiskey on their hips, gamblers, cattlemen, oilmen, old folks and bobby-soxers. They came by train, bus, automobile and even on yachts. The Longs were coming back into power: Huey's greying, gravel-voiced brother Earl was being inaugurated governor of Louisiana...
...Paris, which has not had a princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...
...judge approaching fish, determine their sex and promise, and act accordingly. But this, explains Professor N. Tinbergen in a recent Bulletin of the Wilson Ornithological Club, is giving them too much credit. Often all they see is a single characteristic of the approaching fish, which "releases" in them a train of automatic responses...
...goes out to fight the duel with her husband from which he had been planning to run before he read the letter. The moral of this decision is not quite clear, but one gets the impression that he spent so much time reading the letter that he missed his train. Presumably he gets killed, but the audience never finds...
...been a bad weekend for the nation. Most railroads had put an-embargo on shipment of perishables. Thousands of vegetable workers in California had already been laid off. Imminent freight and passenger-train cancellations spread confusion. The war of nerves touched virtually every citizen in the land...