Word: queues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unbudgeted item of last-minute expense: in a gesture of good fellowship and good showmanship, Bing ordered 100 cups of afternoon coffee served to a sidewalk queue that had lined up for standing-room tickets...
...standing room only for a while at the new Graduate Commons dining hall last night. By 6:15 p.m. the waiting line stretched all the way down both ramps and the whole length of the ground floor. Many hungry students, seeing the mammoth queue, turned away. Those who waited, though, found that the long line moved steadily, if slowly...
...delegates, have no power to speak for their churches) packed the big (10,000 seats) Cleveland Public Auditorium for a busy program of speeches, resolutions, pageants and hymns. So popular were the talks that once, when the convention newspaper carried a notice that extra copies would be available, a queue lined up for them at 6:30 the next morning...
...Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...
...began going out the hatch. They had to dive down toward the floor, crawl into the canvas funnel and up through the hatch. "We formed a queue as though we were waiting for a bus," said one survivor. The trip to the surface took 40 seconds. After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging. "I was caught on it for about a minute, but it seemed an eternity," he said...