Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Along its 10,000 miles of mainline track raced Pennsylvania locomotives pulling empty cars to flake the rust off the rails. Safety crews hustled to inspect thousands of switches. After a twelve-day shutdown, the Pennsylvania Railroad-the nation's biggest freight and passenger line-last week started to roll again...
...Cutey is a great station, baby," said Clay to his listeners last week, rambling from one speckled inanity to another, eating a candy bar with exaggerated slurps, grunts and lip smacks so everyone could enjoy it with him. "I'm a flake. I tell my mother I'm a flake. I'm really unusual," he said, exhibiting new insights since his observation in the autumn that "I am such a sweet little guy." He bragged about the night he drove his Lincoln convertible to the parking lot of his former station, WJBK, sat there and bayed...