Word: queues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thin and wasted face-and often at Juan Perón, who kept long vigils at her glass-topped casket. Sixteen persons were killed, crushed and trampled by the throngs; 3,900 were in hospitals with injuries; thousands of others got first aid. In the 20-block, four-abreast queue were infants in arms and a 102-year-old woman who cried, "I've never known real pain before." To feed the multitude, the army set up 24 field kitchens, gave away sandwiches, oranges, coffee. The street outside Evita's resting place was packed with 8,340 funeral...
...have to replace it by an artificial figure. It must be perfectly done." Says Svanidze: "I learned afterward that the body of Lenin had been replaced by a substitute made at Kazan," and the decomposing body secretly cremated. The body that hundreds of the faithful now patiently queue to see, says Author Svanidze, is a fake...
During the night, some 1,000 fans patiently queued for tickets. By morning, when tickets went on sale, the queue had swelled to 16,000, stretching for two miles. The crowd became unruly; it pushed over a couple of brick walls, trampled gardens, uprooted hedges. This frenzied performance by normally well-behaved Englishmen was directed to a single-minded purpose: getting tickets for the Chelsea-Arsenal soccer game, the semifinal climax of the Football Association Cup matches. By noon, 50,000 tickets had been sold, and scalpers were offering them for resale at eight times the 2 shillings sixpence...
...King's body lay in state at Westminster, Londoners felt a strong sense of history and a deep compulsion to share it. "I said to myself, Elsie, you put on your hat, I said, and take a bus and go up there," explained one member of the Great Queue. "I'm glad I came," said another...
Four Dukes. On Friday morning, as plain Britons jammed the curb and watched from rented windows along the way, the dignitaries lined up in another Great Queue, to escort the dead monarch to Paddington Station. Soldiers from the far reaches of his Commonwealth led the procession, followed by the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders from Scotland, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Irish Guards, and detachments of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Britain's greatest soldiers walked with their men: Air Marshals Portal and Tedder, Field Marshals Alanbrooke, Ironside and Montgomery...