Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sought cigarets; in Russia, shoes; in Britain, sheets. She learned (what she had long suspected) that privation marched with the victorious armies as well as with the vanquished. Her frustration was sharply symbolized by one elderly woman of Worcester, Mass., who stood on a street corner futilely waving while bus after crowded bus passed her by. Finally, she stepped in front of one, stamped her foot and for 20 minutes she and the driver fought a duel of wills as obdurate as two peacemaking statesmen. This unidentified Worcesterite, impatient at the complexities that lay between her and simple goals...
...brain. He has produced an atom bomb and a panty girdle, the vitamin pill, the comic book, the subway gum machine, the soap opera and the revolving door. But in the minds of thousands of New Yorkers all of these achievements pale when compared to the Fifth Avenue bus...
Despite its elephantine proportions, the double-decked bus was designed for a purely hypothetical race of men with an average weight of 98 pounds and an average height of 5 ft. ½ in. A normal man cannot stand in one without getting his hat knocked off, or assuming a stooped posture, not unlike that of an Oriental criminal awaiting the headsman...
Irascible as Manhattan's bent and pleated bus-riders often are, they can never hope to match the irascibility of Fifth Avenue's ancient, turtle-blooded drivers and conductors...
...many a bruised New Yorker, the Fifth Avenue bus has represented the apogee of progress, the point beyond which even Western Civilization could not go. But last week they knew better. Open-topped buses (from which it was sometimes possible to catch a few breaths of air only mildly tinctured with exhaust fumes) were being removed from service. Other double-deckers were being made into one-man conveyances-drivers would have to make change as well as buck traffic, and could be expected to get more apoplectic. And new, elongated single-decked buses were being introduced, thus forcing passengers...