Word: train
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some trains did pass through Dresden, where up to 15,000 besieged the city's main train station, only to be driven back by police wielding clubs and water cannons. The crowd, which included casual onlookers as well as those trying to get on the trains, overturned police vehicles and pelted police with rocks. A total of 7,600 East Germans from Prague reached safety in Hof the next morning, and 600 more arrived from Warsaw the following day, bringing to 15,000 the total evacuated since the embassy occupations began...
More horrors await. An almost endless train of tuneless trollops traipses by, each one hoping for a taste of fleeting fame on the fleabag cocktail club circuit. Frank moans, "37 singers and not one who could carry a tune. There was a certain surreal quality...
Church sources said a participant in a demonstration last week was run over by a train and lost both his legs...
...first axioms American reporters learn is that a fender bender on Main Street is bigger news than a train wreck in Pakistan. Just as Tip O'Neill crystallized electoral wisdom in his dictum "All politics is local," many editors seem to have concluded that all journalism should be local too. Reportage from distant places tends to be limited to the melodramatic and gauged by personal relevance: either the it-could-have-been-me human-interest factor or the larger-implications factor of how, although the news consumer was untouched by a particular event, similar ones in the future might have...
Sometimes an interruption is worth a thousand words. Taking the train from Shanghai to Shandong province, Michael Kramer shared a four-bed sleeping compartment with a middle-aged factory official clad in a blue Mao suit. As the man explained to Kramer why only foreigners and very important bureaucrats were allowed to travel in such accommodations, the door opened and in strolled a young Chinese man in a yellow Lacoste shirt, loaded down with boxes of stereo equipment. Absorbed in the music crackling through the headphones of his Walkman, the budding entrepreneur remained oblivious to Kramer and the very-important...