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Word: subway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep the tomato sauce from dripping on his shirt. But all of a sudden he jumped up and left. When he came back he had a pistol in one hand and was herding before him six scared-looking men he had rounded up at the entrance to the IND subway. "Gentlemen," said Bill with a laugh, "be seated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Great Ham & Egg Holdup | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

...travel in the subway. It's very cheap, honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

Five o'clock-the buildings erupt: "My train, my bus, my subway, my ferry. Got a dime? Lend me a dime. See you tomorrow. I got to hurry, I miss my train. What time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 3, 1953 | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...city's wretched financial position which is steadily growing worse, and he has made only weak efforts to solve specific problems like New York's huge transit deficit (TIME, Apr. 20), which last week resulted in a 15? fare for all the city's subway turnstiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Petrified Forest | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

...Communist spy (Richard Kiley) beats up and shoots the girl, hits a cop over the head with a pistol, and kills an eccentric old necktie peddler (Thelma Ritter). The pickpocket knocks out the spy by smashing his head against a wall, slugs it out with him on a subway platform and on the tracks in front of an oncoming train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

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