Word: abreast
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Many of his customers railed at him for making them sit three abreast on his Constellations and using DC-35 on runs which they felt deserved better service...
Refresher courses do not keep teacher abreast with now educational theories anthropologist Margaret Mead said last night in a talk on "the School in American Culture." Miss Mead delivered the Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education is Fogg lecture hall...
Hour after hour, as the blocks-long, four-abreast line of patient, pious Mexicans inched forward, a squat, swarthy man moved stolidly along with it. It was worth the trouble, he reflected. It was not every day that a Mexican could see so holy a relic with his own eyes. It was not every day that a Belgian monk, trying to promote peace in the Holy Land, arrived on a world tour with a splinter from Jesucristo's own cross. Dios, what excitement! Red Cross ambulances screamed up & down, carting off women & children trampled in the crush...
...inside the elaborate baroque doors of the San Francisco church. Over the rebozo-covered heads of the women ahead of him, he could actually see the ten-foot cross with its glass box containing the holy splinter mounted at its center. His pulse beat faster. Finally, as he came abreast of the cross, his pocket knife flashed. Shrilly, the woman behind him screamed. "Virgen santisima! A sacrilege! This man has cut a piece of the Holy Cross...
...Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, 600 extras and eye-crashing Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...