Word: queue
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Because it turned cold Friday, I wore my winter coat. Hurrying through the Holyoke Center arcade a little before noon, I saw that people had begun to queue up at the Harvard Box Office; according to placards taped in the window, the Undergraduate Council’s Harvard-Yale shuttle tickets went on sale at noon. We had talked, my blockmates and I, about going to see the game at Yale this year—We ought to go, we said, we really should go. After having talked it over, though, and having puzzled out the logistics of bus trips...
...committing suicide] the biggest sin of all?” wonders one of the characters in the selection. “I can see that it’s a sort of queue-jumping. But if you jump in a queue, people tut, they don’t say, ‘You’re going to burn in hellfire for all eternity...
...commonly supposed that there's nothing nicer than sitting in a Florentine café or Beijing teahouse, with postcards fanned in front of you to craft elegant missives to loved ones. But the attractions of sending your wish-you-were-heres digitally are harder to resist. Why queue in a dingy post office, fumble with unfamiliar coins and try to buy stamps in a language you don't speak, when you can just use your phone to take a picture of the Acropolis or the Kremlin and fire it off to anyone you like? If you don't have...
...companies, they'd love to jump in, but are still barred by U.S. sanctions - which are unlikely to be lifted with an election on the way. - By Bruce Crumley and Adam Zagorin We Owe You Money? Get In Line Britons are famed for loving an orderly queue. But a new law may cause chaos in the ranks of those seeking to wring funds from insolvent firms. Unleashed last week, the Enterprise Act makes it harder for banks to push a firm into receivership (almost 20,000 U.K. businesses failed last year). Instead, it promotes the appointment of administrators acting...
...course, my place to compare the relative legacies of these two great institutions, but I was struck during my visits to West Point by an image impressed on the minds of its cadets. At West Point, they call their graduates the long gray line, the queue of soldiers who have put their bodies in front of bullets for the ideals and well-being of their country. When each cadet graduates, he earns his commission as an officer in the U.S. Army and takes his rightful place among the honored group of men who have earned the like distinction...