1916, Joseph McCabe, The Tyranny of Shams Chapter IX

In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.

The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power.

There was a 408 train headed down the east side of Taiwan, uh, north of the city of Hualien, and what apparently happened is, judging by some of the aerial images we've seen, some kind of a vehicle was on a road above the railroad, as it was coming along a steep mountain, a coastline, and some kind of construction truck skidded down the side of this mountain close to the railroad tracks, and the train hit it.