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Word: subways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...quarter past two in the morning. Charlie's wife stands alone in the Scollay Square subway station clutching a cold pastrami sandwich. She hears an oncoming train. She winds-up to throw. But with a wooosh the train has come and gone at 70 m.p.h. Russian dressing oozes out onto the still-trembling tracks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gleaming Trains Rush Through Tunnels | 1/15/1970 | See Source »

...laughing. He is hysterical. He is consumed by laughter, actually afflicted with it. He cannot stop. It is astonishing. It is even more astonishing because there is no man in sight. The subway station is empty-except for one old woman and two small boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Laugh Tycoon | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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