Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Work. At home, our day began at 7 a.m. Before breakfast we had to fetch the milk for the small children. For breakfast we always had potatoes and bread. Butter was very scarce. Then the boys and girls went to school and the women had to go out and queue up for fish, if they could find some fish, and other foods. This took several hours, then they went home to make dinner, mostly potatoes. There are a hundred ways to fix potatoes. We had meat, usually half veal and half horse, once every four months...
Manhattan importers were six months, behind with their orders. Porcelain fanciers, in an invisible but impatient queue, waited last week for their ceramic birds, which they bought as fast as they could be imported from Britain. The superbly color-glazed, life-sized birds, perched in natural flower and branch settings, cost from $250 to $475 a pair...
...station, the ticket agent did not understand the German's German or his French. It seemed silly to stand there while they held up the whole queue, so I helped the German to buy his ticket. While we were putting our tickets and money into our billfolds, the German turned to me and said: "Rather stupid to be mechanical about things when one is in a neutral country, nicht wahr? I just came from Berlin, but I am a Hamburger." As he said the last word, his mouth twitched convulsively...
...time, we all lined up before twelve inexpert Nazis, doing twelve prisoners at a time. In the first dozen chained men there was an escape expert, a former London bobby, who quickly showed his companions how to remove the bracelets. They chucked them under a hut and rejoined the queue. The Nazis used up 800 cuffs on 600 men-and found there were still hundreds of the original 600 waiting in line...
...business section is an ear-shattering din of crawling tanks, trains, of street cars, lorries, motorcycles, marching men and policemen's whistles. Newly arrived troops queue up to register at various headquarters before going to the front. If they have spare time-and usually they have not-they roam into music shops to have balalaikas repaired or buy new ones, get shaved by women barbers, watch the pretty girls, have their nails manicured, or read the latest newspapers slapped on billboards. Above the sound and fury are the protecting wings of Red Air Force bombers and fighters...