Word: queue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from his shoulders, Abdullah said $1,600. But the ferryman thought that was not a fair sheik, refused to switch cars at any price. His Highness' motorcar had to queue, wait...
...theaters. 50,000 caterwauling girls piled into the Nichigeki in seven days carrying box lunches of rice and seaweed. The Koma Theater drew bigger crowds with rockabilly than with the New York City Ballet. Four hours before the doors opened at the Kyoritsu teen-agers had formed in a queue three blocks long...
Some of the critics came out on the side of the stuffy clergymen. Wrote Film Critic Robert Muller of the Daily Mail: "Has religion entered the marshmallow age? Is the Church in the queue with the rest of the pitchmen who clamor for our attention?" Despite such attacks, British TV is evidently trying to step into what it considers a spiritual vacuum in Britain. Other religious TV shows: a puzzled panel of youngsters alternating bouts of rock 'n' roll with questions to the Moderator of the Church of Scotland ("Why isn't it just as good...
Leaving the Castel Nuovo, the Christian Democrats passed by a long queue of Neapolitans lined up to receive the mayor's usual Christmas distribution of free spaghetti and canned tomatoes. As a political argument, it was hard to beat. Groaned a Christian Democratic politician: "It looks as if Lauro wants to move from misgoverning a city to misgoverning the nation...
Deprived of absolution-there was a queue at the box, and Verlaine had never had to wait for anything before-he decided to be redeemed by the love of a pure angel. For this he selected 16-year-old Mathilde Maute, prim and pretty authoress of a poem beginning, "How powerful is a woman's tear!" Verlaine so worshiped her that he stopped going to brothels, and when their marriage had to be postponed, suffered what he perplexedly called "a disappointment that one might almost describe as carnal...