Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires was closed down tight. But instead of demonstrating in the streets or sabotaging still-operating plants, the workers good-naturedly sipped maté in the spring sunshine or played sand-lot soccer. As the strike dragged on, soldiers took over buses, and society women, made change in subway booths. Tacks thrown into streets halted 90 buses and a fire engine on its way to answer a fire alarm; a Molotov cocktail was tossed against a bus. But at strike's end most workers went quietly back to work...
Meanwhile, the remainder of the varsity ate its usual pre-meet steak on the train, arrived at Grand Central Station, and traveled uptown to Van Cortlandt by subway. They dressed for the meet and jogged over the course. But as the hour of the start approached, there was still no sign of Segal...
Sukiyaki's lies in the great stone shadow of Symphony Hall, about half a block from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building, and accessible by subway token. It is bounded on the right by the Mai Fong Chinese restaurant, and on the left by the Redy Hot Lunch Budweiser Bar and Full Gospel Chapel. The sign says "One Flight Up," next door to Mildred's School of The Ballet...
Sinerama. Though barely old enough to vote, brash, nightclub-pallid John J. Miller is precocious enough to be Broadway's most scurrilous keyhole peeper. For Manhattan's National Enquirer (circ. 119,055), a Sunday tabloid ("The World's Liveliest Paper") that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller...
Orderly Man. In Manhattan, after he nabbed a thief lifting a wallet from a sleeping passenger's pocket and chalked up his 181st arrest, all of which resulted in convictions, Subway Conductor William J. O'Donnell, 47, said: "I don't want anything to happen on my trains...