Word: tram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could look back upon a not very tidy but far from untalented season. Indeed, 1948-49 had its genuine high points-even moments when it did not seem like Broadway. Shifting and swerving, it was a season, to misquote the old limerick, that ran like a bus, not a tram...
...newcomer. There were livelier greetings. Britons everywhere toasted the royal couple. In Tokyo, the British embassy gave a luncheon for 500 to celebrate the prince's birth. In Sydney, Australia, a streetcar motorman chalked "It's a boy" in huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain...
...people's republic was better than the old days. "Obviously it is," said Erno. "Why?" asked Lajos. "Well," said Erno, "in the old days you lived in a cold, dirty flat, ate a few crusts of bread for breakfast, and then shivered on the street waiting for a tram. After a long, hard day you returned to your flat and froze all night...
...doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs. The doctors wondered: Was it due to chemical burns? To a new skin disease? Dr. John Kinnear, of the Dundee Royal Infirmary, discovered and pondered the fact that all the women had been riding the same tram line. Dr. Kinnear inspected and confirmed a suspicion: bedbugs...
...hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...