Word: queues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the reign of George VI, Britons learned to queue-tediously and inevitably-for food, for fun, for clothing, for travel, for life's necessities and life's rewards. Last week they queued for George himself. No one could measure or plot precisely the serpentine columns of human beings that formed and reformed, doubled, branched and coiled back again along London's streets and across chilly Thames bridges, to get a last glimpse of the dead King's coffin as it lay in medieval Westminster Hall. But before the week was out, Londoners had taken...
...misfortune. They are the hapless and for the most part innocent victims of man's inhumanity to man: the 875,000 Arab refugees from Palestine and their opposite numbers, 200,000 Jewish immigrants, admitted to Israel but not yet absorbed. They huddle in tents and makeshift shelters, queue for meager rations. Last week Nature added to their misery, in a howling of winds and a downpour of rain such as the Middle East hadn't seen for a quarter-century...
JOURNALISM. Since the murder of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, et seq.), Buenos Aires' last surviving independent daily is La Natión-proud, conservative, accurate. Argentines who hunger for honest news instead of government pap now queue up at the paper's office at 6 a.m. to buy the few extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line...
...more than a decade, Britons have been patiently queuing up for virtually all of life's luxuries and necessities. Last week, Britain's nationalized railways announced a plan to relieve the lot of passengers forced to stand in line for trains. On the principle that a queue by any other name is easier to bear, British station signs reading, "Queue here" will be changed to "Assemble here...
...lovers jumped at the challenge. By 3 p.m. one day last week-four hours before the doors opened-they began to queue up outside the museum with camp stools, box lunches and Thermos jugs of Martinis. At 7 p.m. the Whitney opened its doors and the 1,000-odd lined up outside began to pour...