Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt. Out of 600,000 metal and auto workers in the notorious "Red Belt" around Paris, only 3,000 obeyed the C.G.T. summons, and even they returned to work after half an hour. At the Simca factory in Nanterre the only 600 workers to leave their machines were...
...eight children) of an Irish-born immigrant who started out as a laborer, entered New Jersey politics, became a city commissioner and later Newark's director of public safety. As a schoolboy, young Bill helped the family income by delivering milk, making change for trolley riders. Graduating cum laude from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, he won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, got his degree...
Boston's rachitic Post, the Toonerville trolley of U.S. journalism, went back on the tracks last week after a derailment that put it out of circulation for eight days. It was the second time in six weeks that Publisher John Fox's morning daily had been forced by sheer lack of cash to stop publishing. But this time self-made Financier Fox, 49, did not come back to the controls. He stepped aside by declaring the Post bankrupt, and three court-appointed trustees began trying to dig the paper out of its $2.2 million pile of debts...
Here's Commonwealth. Look at the trolley tracks. Ralph, look at them. For crying out loud, look at time! Get the wheel out of the tracks, you idiot...
Gasping and guffawing, Miami playgoers were watching reckless-driving Actress Tallulah Bankhead run A Streetcar Named Desire completely off its trolley. In the role of beaten, world-weary Blanche Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski...