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...overloaded that approaching autos were backed up for hundreds of yards and the terminals were besieged by distraught passengers who had missed flights because of the congestion. At New York's La Guardia Airport during the peak morning departure period, 40 jetliners idled their engines in a serpentine queue for as long as two hours before finally getting permission to take off. Isolated instances? Not at all. Across the U.S. last week, airports were clogged with unparalleled throngs of passengers and hit by unprecedented numbers of snafus and snarls...
...history had come to a close. Some doomsayers had predicted that there would be demonstrations by embittered leftist workers. But apart from a brief, lively election-night march by a few dozen center-right celebrators, observers on the Champs-Elysées noted only the formation of a patient queue, intent upon nothing more momentous than buying tickets to Rencontres du Troisième Type (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) at a movie house. The morning after the elections, when, according to some dark prophecies, plans for crippling mass strikes would be hatched, the French quietly went back...
...constitution pledges fewer ideological restrictions on the arts and literature, which most Chinese will clearly welcome. When copies of a Chinese translation of Hamlet appeared in a shop on Peking's Wang Fu Ching Street recently, they attracted a queue of buyers that stretched 100 yds. Official journals have railed against "stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths...
That was when I had to queue at nine o'clock in the morning a week before a game so I would have a chance to see you. And everyone in Cambridge would jam into Section 19 to be part of the victory celebration...
This is Paris in 1942. The German occupying forces have increased the harassment of Jews, and a major crackdown clearly is coming. Citizens who cannot produce baptismal certificates proving the Christianity of all four grandparents must queue up at physiognomy clinics, where quacks measure noses and cheekbones to spy out the Jewish taint...