Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely competitive marketplace, it prizes competence and rewards brilliance. It refuses to let a man take off his shirt in a park, carry a gun or smoke in the subway, but it doesn't care if he practices Buddhism, wears a pink shirt or marries and divorces six blondes...
...Frankfurt's mayor received relay runners with greetings from all parts of occupied Germany. One had come all the way from Berlin, but he was not even out of breath. The Russians had forbidden him to run through the streets in their sector; so he had taken the subway to the airport and flown the rest...
...noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
...name. He died three years later--but his spirit still lives on today in the school that is his namesake, in Cole Porter sougs, in Nadherny, Jackson, Furse, and Fuche, and in the plaque that commemorates his birthplace in the shadow of the shadow of the Scollay Square subway block...
Things are tough all over, even the subway are in a hole, and, according to Kenneth M. McCaw, field representative for the Nebraska State Safety Council, it's a good thing they are in a hole...