Word: railways
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Synfll. In Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch,* a village in Wales, thieves stole the 2O-ft. sign from the railway station...
...more than four years of war, Algeria had seen no bloodier fighting. Returning to old-style guerrilla tactics (but armed with new automatic weapons), the F.L.N. rebels struck in bands of 30 or less at isolated French outposts, mined the railway line leading from the Sahara oilfields. Trying to seal off the rebels' supply lines from neighboring Tunisia, the French gave as good as they got. The week's estimated casualty toll on both sides: more than...
...possibly even to win his country's "Order of Mercy and Plenty with Crossed Haystacks," Popovic puts a safety match to the castle cannon and rips the log-riding diplomats asunder with a mixed charge of "beer bottle tops, discarded trouser buttons, cigarette-tins and fragments of discarded railway train...
...sports girl's racket, pressed to her breast or flying in the sunlit air. But Betjeman is not chiefly a poet of humor. Born a Quaker, but now a deeply serious Anglican, he can write of religion with earnest simplicity or with a chuckle ("The old Great Western Railway makes me very sorry for my sins...
...round against the companies, the cynically timed holiday strikes may well bring a tighter Government policy against such walkouts. At week's end Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell announced that he will soon convene a top-level labor-management conference to debate whether the 33-year-old Railway Labor Act, which tries to regulate airline disputes, needs revamping and toughening. Hearing the news, Eastern's Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker called for a law to require compulsory arbitration of disputes that cannot be settled by Government mediation...