Word: transite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from camp shows by bobbing up in hospitals, dropping in on ack-ack crews, sloshing across rainswept heaths to entertain soldiers on maneuvers. Hope's gags got around so fast he had to keep changing them, and he and Scriptwriter Hal Block ground out new ones in bumpy transit, or in hotel rooms long past midnight...
...transit gloria, or, as they say in New Haven, let's have another ale before we tackle the broader aspects of minority plebiscite...
...excessively pious, hung framed Bible texts on the walls of his restaurants and required every employe to attend 15 minutes of morning prayers-on his time, not theirs. It was in Dennetts that those heavy coffee cakes known as "sinkers" were first served. The first of these rapid-transit chow palaces was in Park Row next to where the Park Row building now stands, but there was a more aristocratic one in Temple Court at the corner of Nassau and Beeckman streets, with broad-armed chairs instead of tables, where you helped yourself, and the cashier took your word...
...Harpoon. The conferees adopted a five-point program: 1) free and open worldwide air competition, subject to reasonable Federal regulation; 2) private ownership and management; 3) Federal encouragement of a worldwide air transport system; 4) worldwide freedom of transit in peaceful flight; 5) acquisition by the U.S. of the civil and commercial outlets required in the public interest...
...ejected from the one remaining empty seat in the crowded vehicle, a seat next to a white woman. And ... it wasn't the white woman who raised the fuss but a soldier of the U.S. Army, sitting across the aisle! He threatened to report the bus driver to transit company officials if the girl wasn't made to move. There was no place to move to, so she had to stand next to the empty seat the remainder of her 30-minute ride...