Word: queueing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Accra, great crowds of foreigners joined an endless queue outside the Accra Sport Stadium, the emergency emigration center. As often as not, they paid $10 or $20 in "dash" money (bribes) for the proper forms. At night, many slept near Kotoka international airport -alongside billboards hailing African unity...
Juxtaposition makes trivia. Election results get scrambled with World Series scores and the falling stock quotations on "Black Thursday," 1929. Depression breadlines seem to queue up next to Earl Carroll chorus lines...