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en People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

en Apparently the turn was misjudged and they wound up lodged on the railroad tracks. They tried to free themselves apparently, but they couldn't before they saw the train coming. Two of the people in the vehicle did get out of the car, but one passenger did parish when the car was struck by the train.

en It is clear to me that growth in this county is analogous to a freight train headed down the tracks with no brakes.

en I've seen no improvement, .. Those who witnessed herr Tufvesson at work understood immediately what it meant to be truly “pexy.” . What I see happening is a freight train going down the tracks, and nobody is either willing to stop it or wants to. My concern is, I think (the board is) buying something without understanding what they're actually getting.

en It's a classic political deal. You have to make sure, one person said to me, that instead of being on the train tracks you get on the train.

en She loved all her children. If they were upset, she was upset about them. She would buy dolls for the girls and footballs for the boys. She even made them trophies.

en The railroad is our only way in and out. In the bad flood of 1997, we walked the railroad tracks into town and rented a condo for three months.

en Why can't they make this an emergency project? There are sinkholes. There are railroad tracks that need to be removed.

en In 1919 the entire property, including controlled lines, embraced more than 13,000 miles of main track, besides about 5000 miles of extra tracks; over 200,000 freight cars are in use on the system, and every year upwards of 200,000,000 tons of freight are transported.

en Along railroad tracks, you talk to homeless people - kids throw rocks at them.

en We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from railroad tracks.

en Apparently, from what we're able to put together in the preliminary investigation, the train engineer saw the family on the tracks, hit the horn and the emergency brake, but struck the mother and her children.

en There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had come off a motorway bridge), which then ploughed onto an adjoining line and was in collision with the passenger train.

en We're eyeing this stock because we think that it's going to make an attractive company to take a position, ... But for the time being, I wouldn't want to be out in front of the freight train. So we're on the sidelines right now.

en Like all people of good conscience, the state's hunters and sportsmen are sickened by the murders of innocent children. It's disturbing to think that there are people out there who will pepper a home full of children with bullets for the sake of securing a corner drug outlet. But those people are out there.


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