Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made real news. Mr. Brooks, 38, a banker, ordinarily as meek as a citizen, had been commuting from Greens Farms, Conn, for four years. Twice a day he had been shoved around in Grand Central Station, trampled like a grape in a vintage year; then, as he neared the train, given the old heave-o into the car by bawling subway guards. One muggy morning last week, Subway Guard Matthew Walsh spied Commuter Brooks on the crowd fringe, got behind him, shoved him mightily between the closing doors of a subway car. It was all suddenly too much for Commuter...
...coast artillery. One night last week Danes witnessed the bombing of a row of flares set in Rantum Bay to guide Nazi raiders home, another night saw a bomb hit the Hindenburg Dam, a causeway over tidal flats connecting Sylt with the mainland. Danish observers saw a supply train held up for half a day on the Dam while track was repaired. For one bomb which fell on Denmark's Romo Island, Britain apologized, offered reparations...
...reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned...
Died. Roy Gardner, 56, onetime notorious train robber, since his release from Leavenworth in 1938 a film salesman, crime lecturer, author (Hellcatraz), exposition barker; by his own hand (poison gas of his own mixing); in San Francisco...
noise, and cold. penetrating. band blares out, brassy noise. death rattling roll of drums. noise, a strident scream. angry hissing. belches of cotton smoke ... the train grates...