Word: queues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say, what views they are to hold and within what limits they may express them, where their wives are to go to queue up for state rations, what education their children are to receive to mold their views of human liberty and conduct in the future? The socialist state, once thoroughly completed in all its details and all its aspects, and that is what I am speaking on, could not afford to suffer...
...narrow old Rue Cambon, in front of the Chanel perfume shop, a double queue stretched half a block long. Forty fighting men, some with the mud of Germany still on their boots, pushed into a jewelry shop in the Rue Saint Honore. A perfume shop in the Rue de la Paix was closed at noon; two days' rations had been cleaned...
Misqueue. In Portland, Ore., standees in a cigaret queue complained that the line was moving slower & slower, discovered after two hours they had queued up in front of the income-tax office...
...Most of our clients thought we had plenty of time," Suzette resumed. "Idiots. With a queue halfway round the block...
Mexicans are a durable people. But their living costs have risen 150% in four years. They blamed their rulers. When the government persuaded them to cook with kerosene instead of charcoal, they quipped: "If we cooked with electricity they would find a way of having us queue up for current." In recent weeks there had been riots...