Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Falkenburg. They magnified the regrettable incident in which he was booed by a small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...
...Mischief. After a game, fans queue up at locker-room doors just to glimpse or touch the hero who kicked a goal. But where U.S. big-league baseballers make a minimum of $5,000 a year (and on up to $90,000), soccer stars who bring as high as $95,000 when sold on the open market get a top salary of about $56 a week, plus $8 bonuses for every game won. The British encourage their stars to have an off-season job. "It keeps a man out of mischief," said Robert Williamson, a Scottish football official. "It doesn...
...children stared at the piles of lollipops, taffy, gumdrops, and other treasures in shop windows, many of them for the first time in their lives feeling the sweet pangs of choice. In London's Hyde Park, a queue moved forward through the brilliant sunshine as a little slate-roofed kiosk opened for business. One boy unfolded the mystery of Life Savers for his brothers: "There's nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained...
Keep It Clean. The Latins from Manhattan (and sometimes from points as distant as Bethlehem, Pa.) queue up at the former fight arena with their families and their lunches, eager to pay admissions from $1.20 to $2 to see their favorites in three-a-day vaudeville shows. The magician who sawed the lady in half was merely a fillip to the Latin taste; the big draws are such stars of Mexico and South America as Cinemactors Jorge Negrete and Pedro Armendariz and Singer Libertad Lamarque...
...that time (1910), China's revolution against the tottering Manchu dynasty was in progress. Swept along by the torrent, Mao clipped off his queue as an antimonarchist demonstration. Other students promised to follow his example, but later reneged. This prepared Mao for party discipline-or what Lenin called "democratic centralism." Recalls Mao: "A friend of mine and I therefore assaulted them in secret and forcibly removed their queues, a total of more than ten falling victim to our shears...