Word: subways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earphones, at least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
...clock the police began to arrive. Between 6 and 8, trucks brought 3,000 blue-uniformed agents de ville, armed with revolvers and batons, and khaki-clad Gardes Mobiles in steel helmets, carrying rifles. Nearby subway stations were closed and guarded by groups of cops from the Service d'Ordre, the dreaded riot squad of the Prefecture of Police; under their capes they hid Tommy guns...
...Paris the fierce young captain stopped off in Manhattan and met José Clemente Orozco, who was painting toys in a factory. Siqueiros told Orozco he thought the subway was one of the loveliest things he had ever seen. Riding a hurtling Bronx express, they quarreled violently about it. When the train stopped, Orozco dashed out and disappeared into a blinding snowstorm. Siqueiros waited all night in the subway entrance, making occasional forays into the night, fearful that a great Mexican talent was freezing to death somewhere under the alien snow. Two days later Siqueiros learned that his angry friend...
...national maritime walkout tied up all French ports for 48 hours; a transport strike in Paris paralyzed the Métro. As Premier Paul Ramadier's Government tried to break the strike, Paris' gentle autumn air grew heavy with menace. Armed, steel-helmeted guards stood outside barricaded subway entrances and bus depots. The Cocos (Paris argot for Communists) accused the Socialists of fomenting the strike, then absurdly belabored the Government for strikebreaking. (After De Gaulle's victory, the Communists prepared to call off the strike...
...good financially, scholastically, socially or athletically," Father Gannon said. "We are not interested in providing business for the gambling fraternity and we are not interested in the sports writers . . . the tyrants of tyrants. We are interested in staging contests for our students, the alumni, friends and those on the subway circuit who cross themselves. We want to get football off the vaudeville stage [Fordham plays at the Polo Grounds] and back on the campus where it belongs...