Word: loiterer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...respect the summer was better than usual: there had been almost no "Bermuda highs" - the masses of stagnant air which often loiter for days or weeks over the Atlantic. Slowly revolving in a clockwise direction, they plague the coast al areas with sweltering humid weather blown off the tepid Gulf Stream, make Manhattan seem like Manila or Singapore...
...nothing amazes them more than the contrast in prices. On the islands it is almost impossible to spend money-$30 cash may last a man six months-and when a post exchange does open, men will loiter around it by the hour, buying things they do not need...
Military Secrecy. Negro soldiers stand guard over the laboratories at M.I.T., outstanding center of war research. FBI agents loiter inconspicuously about the University of Chicago campus, where scientists have shelved 90% of their peace time projects and now file their current research in code. Armed police bar visitors from General Electric's laboratories, 100% converted to direct war work. The entire University of Washington campus (with its great wind tunnel) is closed off and guarded at night...
...Indians "hang" (loiter) in the phone booths in the lobby. Those who hit luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...