Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parts of Wales. England's northernmost areas and Scotland were spared, but there many towns were still snowbound. The Thames was on an angry rampage in its valley reaches. Central London, which is never flooded, had drinking water troubles and a titanic traffic jam as power failures halted subway trains...
...Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps revamped by Freddie Martin began to permeate the vernal atmosphere...
...businessman. But at 33 he still could not read. At last he sought help from New York University's Reading Clinic. Last week he was deep in a first-grade reader, and had just experienced one of life's biggest thrills-figuring out the sign on the subway train: "Please keep hands off door...
...thin dime and one subway stop away from the Yard, the 13-year-old Cambridge Police Station is as sensitive to Veritas vibrations as University Hall itself. Situated within whistle-distance of Central Square, the triangular four-story building is home base for a force that has worked hand and stick with the University Police since 1846 maintaining a Widener-like order throughout the College. With a reputation for knowing the student better than does his dean, the 214-man force keeps its headquarters informed on everything from Mt. Auburn pinball machines to Boylston Street bookstalls, and not even...
...Frachon played cat-&-mouse. France twitched and jumped with "token" strikes, ranging from the theater ushers, who would not take patrons to their seats, to the Paris police, who struck for four hours.* At the same time the subway workers struck. A stockbroker, Louis Molinier, watched the resulting traffic snarl in the Place de la Concorde. He pulled his coat collar up against the wind, shivered, and said: "It gives you the impression that a thousand men with rifles could take over the whole city...