Word: elbows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 to elbow harder and longer than ever to be digested and, finally, expelled...
...University appendge of League, which is known as the Harvard Society for Industrial Democracy, is one of the newer organizations to elbow into the crewded college political arena, standing somewhat on the left of center but claiming a firm belief in the "essential princeples to democracy...
...Disinherited. The one significant trend in Latin America today is the crumbling of social oligarchies as the disinherited elbow into the political arena. Hidebound regimes can resort only to repression to conjure the Communist menace (in Brazil this week the Army proclaimed an anti-Communist week). But social-minded democratic regimes, that could offer the masses an outlet for their aspirations, had less cause for alarm...
Eddie Canton and wife Ida turned out to have overpaid their income taxes in 1945, got back the difference: some $100,000. Bing Crosby, whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...
Getting set on characters, plot and locale, and leaving plenty of elbow room for years of future plotting, was a carefully thought out job. Hero Steve Canyon will look something like an older Terry ("I'll never mention his age") but, says Caniff, there's a difference: "Steve Canyon's been around . . . this guy might have been in love a dozen times." Steve's aviation taxi service covers the globe (slogan: "You furnish the reason, we'll furnish the ride"). Caniff gave his hero a roving job so that he could work...