Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...Pittsburgh becoming the most unlivable city in the U.S.; Pittsburgh's domination of the steel world was literally at stake. Markets for steel had moved westward. The Supreme Court's decision outlawing the basing-point system (by which Pittsburgh steel plants had absorbed freight costs to distant markets) had caused consternation among steelmen. Pittsburgh, with much of its equipment overworked and worn out by the war, was faced with determined competition from other steel centers; Chicago, with less steelmaking capacity, had actually outproduced...
...thousands of damaged dwellings. A group of citizens decided that sagging morale needed a boost, began to collect some reminders of the days when Tournai was one of the art centers of the western world. They visited neighboring chateaux, searched dusty parish churches and libraries, sent off letters to distant museums, burrowed in the debris around them...
...from feeder planes to ocean hopping giants. As an added fillip, there was the Brabazon, the world's largest land transport plane, which had been test-hopped only a fortnight ago. Crowed the London Times: "Already America has had to buy British jet engines; in the not far distant future, it may have to buy air frames as well...
...Lisa invitingly recumbent in a black lace and taffeta ensemble (by Janet Taylor); there was Lisa wistfully bored in tulle, for McCallum stockings ("You just know she wears them"). Thin, slightly bony, gowned and groomed with superhuman perfection, she was undeniably beautiful, but in her pictures a bit distant and ethereal, and not altogether real...