Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through luck, industry, and the process of squeezing assorted stool pigeons until they quacked like ducks, the Spanish cops rounded up five train robbers, the pants (Congressman Richards' still had a rabbit's foot in one pocket). Congressman Keogh's wallet and $3,800. They announced, not without a flicker of national pride, that the theft had been accomplished at the town of Las Casetas with a fishing pole. The Congressmen accepted their belongings gratefully. At week's end the Generalissimo received the visitors with the air of a man who runs in train robbers...
...peace and a "peace dance." A patent-medicine company put out a new sedative tablet and proudly named it the Sleep of Peace. Prospective buyers could pick it up in a Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace girls" to boost the sales of its latest product, Peace cigarettes...
...voice resumed its complaint. "Fleas," it said loftily, "have not been known in Le Locle for many years. When the war ended, arrangements were made for French train crews to use the Swiss bunkhouse. Promptly the trouble began. First there were two fleas, then there were four, then they came by the hundreds...
...fair, he has lost 30 Ibs. As soon as he began the job, which has to be finished in time for Port-au-Prince's sooth anniversary in December, he discovered that there were practically no skilled workers in the country. He has had to train electricians, plumbers, welders, drillers, mechanics. He has personally supervised carpenters and masons, all of whom were imbued to a man with the Haitian aversion to straight lines and square corners...
...UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about the project a long time: "Plato once said that...