Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombing would make the English rise in revolt against Churchill's pursuit of the war. (It was a miscalculation that the Allies were to repeat in their subsequent bombing of German cities.) Londoners instead took pride in their ability to endure the blitz, to spend long hours in the subway bomb shelters, to put out the fires and go on with their lives. "I saw many flags flying from staffs," Edward R. Murrow reported to America one night over CBS radio. "No one told these people to put out the flag. They simply feel like flying the Union Jack...
...dirt, awful schools and general corrosiveness that drive people out of cities in the first place. One urban expert says Whyte romanticizes a city that no longer exists -- "the city E.B. White wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going to be solved by having nicer parks...
...chaotic start. While the plan calls for prices to be rolled back to July 3 levels, prices in many stores kept on rising. The announced end of government subsidies for gasoline pushed prices up 670%, to the equivalent of $1.60 per gal. In anticipation of a 350% rise in subway and train fares, commuters flocked to stations to stock up on tokens...
...search my sentiments. Although I generally thrive on the activity of the Square and Harvard Yard, sometimes the area can be downright overwhelming with its street musicians, dancing bears and frantic pedestrians. A long run along the banks of the Charles River or just a ride on the subway and a walk through downtown Boston has, more often than not, given me perspective on my life at school and the decisions I want to make...
...straight to the Pulitzer jurists instead. So these people have to read hundreds of heavy, huge entries, every one of them earthshakingly important. And that makes them really hostile toward journalism in general. Then they have to go out into the streets of New York and get into the subway at rush hour both ways. One of my entries was a vicious and unfair attack on New York City, and the other was a vicious and unfair attack on the Pulitzer Prizes. So they gave me the prize for distinguished commentary. People often confuse it with the Nobel Prize...