Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street of Dignity. To reach his automobile, Gromyko passed through a queue of nylon seekers in front of the grey Soviet Consulate on East 61st Street. (Gromyko knows that Americans talk about nylons much more than about the atomic bomb.) The Cadillac turned into the dignified but flabby reaches of Fifth Avenue as matrons, becalmed by $3 luncheons, heaved out into the 4 o'clock sunshine. At Tiffany's or Cartier's, where a brooch might cost almost as much as a light tank, men & women paused to glance at displays with a diluted, good-natured envy...
Last week police were called out to control men & women who fought to queue up in immunization lines. Public vaccina tion centers were set up in schools, colleges, industrial plants and even firehouses. At week's end, five people had died, 24 more had the disease, three other "possibles" were closely watched...
Extraction. In Portland, Ore., a shopper popped out her false teeth, let them lie. Reason: she refused to lose her place in the nylon queue...
Seven months after the end of the war, their new rations seemed, to many Britons, worse than war itself. Said one suburbanite, standing in the queue before the butcher's shop: "There's been more moaning over this than over the buzz bombs...
...returned servicemen here at TIME were not surprised at how many veterans were buying TIME on the newsstands. Having read TIME-and seen their friends queue up for copies -on all sorts of warfronts during the last four years, they had predicted that quite a percentage of our postwar newsstand buyers would prove to be servicemen who had got the habit of reading TIME abroad...