Word: carting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
Piraquas & Manure. Garbage cans line the curb, from many of them refuse spills over on to the sidewalk. A fire burns in a cluttered gutter. A honking car scatters a game of stick ball in the street. On the corner, a cart vendor sells piraguas (shaved ice flavored with colored sirup) for 3? a cup. An old woman scrambles on her hands & knees under a horse-drawn cart, scooping fresh manure into a cardboard...
...Queen Elizabeth drove down the main street, waving graciously to her cheering subjects, Dustman Cooper became confused. He took a wrong turn, and a moment later found himself driving along the selfsame street as the Queen and not 30 yards behind. The jovial crowd spotted his new cart and, after the Queen had passed, broke into renewed cheers for the dustman. Bewildered Sidney waved his hand uncertainly and smiled a smile of dumb thanks. Behind him in the cart, three helpers smiled and waved like royalty. The crowd went home, and Sidney Cooper had a fine tale to tell...
...Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his wife, the Begum, were learning about the American way of life in & around Chicago. One day the Begum, wearing her long-flowing red silk garara, visited a National Tea Co. market, shopped as carefully as any U.S. housewife, rolled a cart of groceries to the check-out counter...
Then the professor turned towards one wing of the Peabody's tiny stage, clapped, and commanded: "Here, Palomilla!" Palomilla nosed out from behind a curtain, a buzzing four-wheeled cart which doggedly trailed a flashlight held by Wiener's assistant. Palomilla made mistakes; it ran back into the curtain once and stalled often. But it acted with at least as much decision and far more speed than an earthworm...