Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little before 10 p.m., Train No. 175 left Babylon and, rattling off through the suburban towns along the south shore of Long Island, headed west for Manhattan. A little after 10 p.m., 38 miles away, Train No. 192 left the Long Island Rail Road's dingy underground terminal in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, clattered through the tunnel under the East River and headed east. In the two electric trains, their lives converging noisily at a speed of 50 m.p.h., were some 1,000 passengers...
...class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties permitted, a trim 1936 Hillman sedan whisked them away from the cares of Parliament and the chores of suburban housekeeping, with comely, curly-haired Violet Attlee at the wheel, her husband tucked in beside her in the front seat and the back well-stocked with picnic fare...
...movie sequel is an old Hollywood custom designed to repeat a success by imitating it. More often, as with this pale wraith of 1947's Dear Ruth, it succeeds only in running a good thing into the ground. With the same principals playing for farce in the same suburban setting, Dear Wife sadly lacks a script to measure up to the original...
Last week, 51 leaders of French Communism gathered in a Paris suburban town hall to hear reports from pudgy Jacques Duclos and bull-necked Georges Cogniot, envoys to last month's meeting of the Cominform (TIME, Dec. 12). They relayed orders for a drive against "titoism, Trotskyites and police spies." Said Duclos: "I was reminded of a reproach once uttered by our Comrade Jose Diaz (prewar Spanish Communist leader): 'You are too fat. Revolutions are not made with stomachs like yours...