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Word: tunnelers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tufts' fine quarter-miler John Buckley built up a 30-yard lead over McGrath, and Grutzner cut it to 20 yards. Anchor-man Berman had to run against Co-captain Armand Furey, who has turned in very fast performances in the past. Berman caught Furey in the tunnel that covers half the oval, and finished ahead by two or three strides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '54 Track Teams Win Easily in Tufts Meet | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...York seems to pour out of office buildings at once, and the gloomy and echoing caverns of Pennsylvania Station fill with people, two Long Island commuter trains gulped up their nightly rations of humanity. Their doors clanged shut. The Hempstead-bound 6:09 rattled out into the East River tunnel with 1,000 men and women jammed in the seats and aisles of its twelve cars. The Babylon-bound 6:13 pulled out behind it with 1,200 rush-hour passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death Rides the Long Island | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Rattling Dance. The two electric trains quickly emerged from the tunnel; then, for the better part of ten minutes they sped along, one behind the other, through the multi-windowed darkness of Queens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death Rides the Long Island | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...bearded and emaciated G.I.s, who had been hiding in Pyongyang, told Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, that other G.I. prisoners had been loaded on a northbound train. Allen got into his jeep and set out in pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then, on the bridge above the tunnel, appeared five haggard, hysterical G.I.s. They guided General Allen to a small gully where a heap of 17 bodies lay hidden by underbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Train | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...couple of nights ago we stopped in the tunnel. At dinner time they told us we were going for chow in groups of 30. I was in the first group. They marched us up the track and made us sit in a little straw. Then I watched the guard throw the safety on his burp gun. I thought he was just doing it to scare us. But when he started firing I fell over and played dead. I prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Train | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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