Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game in Dusseldorf. One contingent stopped long enough in Cologne to do some serious drinking, smash windows and beat up a few citizens. Twenty-two Englishmen were jailed. Meantime, throngs of rowdies roamed through Dusseldorf's cavernous main railroad station, drinking and gearing up for the game. When a trainload of German fans arrived, the station quickly became a battleground of fistfights and splintered chairs. Miraculously, there were no serious injuries, but 130 were arrested, about 90 of them English. This time, said Dusseldorf Police Chief Hans Lisken, "the English were not the instigators. The Germans started...
...mother took him down to the station in Galesburg, Ill., to see a trainload of doughboys. "All the windows in the cars were opened, and the soldiers were all waving out," he said. "I remember my mother lifted me up and I had a penny. I handed it to a soldier for good luck. I've often wondered who he was and if he had good luck...
...trial may take more than a year to prepare and the harshest possible verdict would be life imprisonment, since France abolished the death penalty in 1981. Yet how can one every pay enough for crime against humanity, for the thousands uprooted from their homes and sent by the trainload to Auschwitz and other camps? As Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon, put it: "The crimes of this man are such that there is no penalty equal to them...
...looked like a cross between a gigantic camp meeting and the gathering of the lost tribes of Israel. First singly, then in twos and threes, finally by the trainload, land-hungry Americans gathered along the edges of a stretch of the Oklahoma Territory known as the Unassigned Lands. Through most of April 1889, soldiers patrolled the edges of the area to keep anyone from crossing into the territory prematurely...
...curator who was awarded France's Médaille de la Résistance for foiling Nazi plans to plunder European art during World War II. Valland recorded the destinations of thousands of appropriated paintings and sculptures, thus facilitating later recovery. She also managed to delay a whole trainload of art from leaving the Jeu de Paume in Paris until the city was liberated by Allied troops...