Word: queues
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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...
...Navy officials in Washington tell us that at many bases the officers and men are too eager for the news to wait for TIME to be read to them. They queue up and read it a page at a time as it comes off the V-Mail printing machines! page" to that size the type would be only a third as big as this-so small that even a Navy man with 20/20 eyesight would have trouble reading it. Consequently we have to cut up proofs of all our columns of type and pictures and maps and paste them together...
...should be made to walk one mile, then stand in a fish queue for an hour. By the end of this time his utility stockings would [droop] from knee to instep in snakelike coils and twists. His corset would have wilted into an uncomfortable, revolting mass of cotton and cardboard. He would find himself supporting the corset, instead of the corset supporting...