Word: openly
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...chugs southwest. It threads through two 360-ft.-long tunnels, one of which was blasted out of 1.7 billion-year-old rock a dizzying 600 ft. above Toltec Gorge. You won't find a carload of snakes like the one Indiana Jones encountered. But do keep your eyes open for deer, black bear, bobcat, mountain lion and eagles...
...named Ferdinand Magellan, originally made for President Franklin Roosevelt. It was paneled in oak with four staterooms, bath and shower, and 6,000 lbs. of ice for air conditioning. The car was sheathed in steel-armor plating and 3-in. bulletproof glass. When they were out in the open, Truman liked the train to hit 80 m.p.h., and he would watch "our country" slide by while telling stories and sipping a little good bourbon--ready at each stop to "give 'em hell" and introduce "the boss," Bess Truman. The most famous campaign picture of all time is of a grinning...
...stories of train campaigning will grow with each retelling. A few political veterans recall Tom Dewey's blurting into an open mike when his train lurched backward that he must have "a lunatic engineer." The New York Times's Scotty Reston ended his account of that particular incident with this line: "And then the train took off with a jerk...
Ultimately the Navy relented and found her an open slot in the surface school. After graduating, McGrath flourished aboard the Navy's fleet of support vessels. She served on four different ships from 1983 to 1994, including an 18-month stint as a commander of a salvage ship. Onshore she earned a master's degree in education from Stanford. Still, by the early 1990s she was beginning to be worried that her career had run aground. "I'm a dinosaur," she remembers thinking, "because the combatant ships aren't open to women." That changed in 1993, when Congress made warships...
...times when I say I'm not going to give this speech...They're changed. Trust me." Wouldn't he have been better off letting words be put in his mouth on David Letterman's Late Show than blundering into an unsavory riff about his host's open-heart surgery? His quick explanation that 60 overnight guests in the Austin, Texas, mansion--who had coincidentally contributed $2 million to him--were all "friends and family" eerily echoed Clinton's first line of defense when the high turnover in the Lincoln Bedroom was disclosed. And when Bush wanted to prove...