Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shuffling around the sky without crowding or possible human error. Meanwhile, the Senate last week passed a bill exempting the FAA from blanket manpower cuts, enabling the agency to hire 3,627 more air controllers at a cost of $145 million. Once hired, they will take two years to train...
...schooling is likely to produce the philosopher-king who could truly handle a job that may be getting too big for one individual. And even the present system may not be so bad as it often seems. The electoral machinery is ramshackle, the campaigns absurdly long, and yet they train the survivors in many skills that are as necessary to governing as they are to getting elected: the skills of compromise, of horse trading, of creating coalitions...
Frewen was still in good spirits when it came time to leave England. Farewelling boozily with his hunting and gambling friends and with the actress Lillie Langtry, a mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board...
...England. How do we let them know we are coming? Send them the postcard that comes with the cutouts in the album. How do we get there? Meet a maid Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock (Valentine's Day was on a Wednesday). She takes you there by boat, train, and taxi. "A splendid time is guaranteed...
...place to meet the maid is derived from the specific references in Lucy in the Sky. They are: "boats," "river," "flowers overhead," "a girl with sun in her eyes," "bridge," "fountain," "rocking horse people," "newspapers and taxis," "train," and "train station." The song itself is a description of meeting a girl. In London there is a footbridge with railroad tracks across the Thames which runs between Charing Cross and Waterloo stations called the Hungerford footbridge. On the Charing Cross side there is a dock. To one side are the Victoria Embankment Gardens, to the other the South Bank Gardens. These...