Word: queues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They Run. In Fitchburg, Mass, three white mice routed a nylon-stocking queue, left three males in line...
Less Bread. Resentment against the Government boiled over when housewives had to queue up for bread again. After two months France was back on rations...
Primitive Pleasures. There, clad in a long blue gown with scarlet cuffs, his hip-long queue carefully braided, the suave ruler, who looks like an Asiatic humpty-dumpty, held court. His ornate audience-chamber was furnished with occidental armchairs, Chinese tables and innumerable glass cases crammed with exquisitely gowned Japanese dolls...
Tired of standing in line to buy food and clothing, British housewives last month sent an "end-the-queue" petition to the Government (TIME, July 23). Now they have evidence that standing in line with market baskets really makes them sick. The British Journal of Physical Medicine and Industrial Hygiene last week published a definition of "queueitis...
Another symptom: British housewives, led by a clergyman's wife, last week rebelled against queuing up for all foods, signed an "end-the-queue" petition to the Government...