Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conductor. In Syracuse, N. Y., a man stole a bus, drove along collecting fares for three hours, then disappeared-with the fares...
...started praying. ... I didn't think much more but just prayed." The roller clanked downhill at 60 miles an hour. Somehow the stalled, tangled traffic jerked apart at the last split second; the juggernaut whistled through by a hair, pounded on down the street. "I missed the school bus ... I saw an opening on my right. Beyond . . . was a fire station, and my first thought was to crash into that and bring her to a stop. But the sidewalk was packed with kids.";) Still praying, Rollerman Solt headed the roller into a steel utility pole. The roller snapped...
...days after his New York City bus strike had ended, Transport Union Chieftain Michael J. Quill was flagged to the curb by an angry policeman for steering his car down the wrong side of Riverside Drive. "Don't you know who I am?" complained Busman Quill. "Who?" said the cop. "I'm Mike Quill." "Never heard of you," grunted the cop, wrote out a ticket...
...North Carolina, Southern-born, a fiery and apostolic liberal; and William Hammatt Davis, New York City patent attorney, former chairman of the New York State Board of Mediation. Wild-haired, level-headed Mr. Davis rehearsed for his new job by sitting in judgment on the New York City bus strike, which was ended last week...
...Japanese can come to pronouncing these words. Gas is gasu, tobacco is tobaku and matches are matchi. Even in the country inns, the maid will come running in with a pair of surippa, bedroom slippers. Beer is biru. When you indicate that you want to get out of a bus the conductress cries stoppu to the driver. As you step into the street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs...