Word: creaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INCHING AWAY, you turn to face a throng of orthopedic shoes who manage a feeble salute. Next to them is a shelf of large brown cotton bandages crutch padding, and rubber pants for the incontinent. You feel the wooden pegs in your hipbones creak, as do the bones in your neck, and the gnarled vertebrae of your defeated back...
What do you say you woman so worried about your grade-point average, what do you say to this man who's not had a conversation in so long that his phrases creak and jar into sentences like a gate on rusty hinges, what do you say you woman whose family has paid their tax-deductible contribution to worthy causes every year, what do you say you woman who's been lectured since you were small never to talk to strange men, this kind of situation spells rape--or an obituary in The Globe more likely...
...consolation in the city that it is worse in the suburbs. The suburbs were born with the auto, lived with the auto, and are dying with the auto. One way out for the suburbanites is to form associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open. There is not much in the way of refrigeration except for the snowbanks, and then the dogs must...
...resist. It would have been equally disastrous to play the lines straight with out inflective italics, thus pretending that they are not unutterably silly, which they are. Director Bill Gile has settled on the very sensible alternative of restoring a comic antique so that it does not pitiably creak with age or smack of cosmetic modernity...
...Track Ventures. To be sure, American trains today are among the world's worst. From the Toonerville trolleys of commuterdom to the fusty relics that creak round the continent, they presently offer only slightly more attractive transportation than a Caterpillar tractor. Railroad managements generally, and frequently their employees, make no secret of their disdain for the passenger; the big money has always been in freight, real estate, mining and other off-track ventures. In the classic words of James Hill, a 19th century president of the old Great Northern, "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...