Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen's rugged physique gave him the advantage in this man-killing itinerary; in a single day, traveling by plane and bus, he covered 823 miles, made eight full-length speeches in seven cities...
Street Scene. In Manhattan, a bus passed up Raphael Torres, who grabbed a cab, chased the bus 33 blocks, caught it, whipped out a knife and stabbed the driver...
...Corvallis, at logging operations along the Umpqua River. He accepted a salmon at Oregon City, signed his name in blood for a local booster club at Coos Bay, paraded with an organization called the "Cavemen" at Grants Pass and, at their bidding, munched on a large bone. When his bus ran over a dog near Salem, he shipped off a pedigreed cocker to the bereaved owners, who promptly named it "Dewey" (but told newsmen they were still for Stassen...
...file from Kavalla, but the telegraph official had never seen a cable in English before and his apparatus seemed to date from pre-Edison days. I tried to get back to Salonika by rail, but the train blew up before I got in. I tried to go by bus, but the busses were not running because one of them had smashed up on a mine the day before. The airplane was the only solution, but, although we went to the airfield daily, the plane did not come in until Thursday...
...convey their uncensored stories to Panama, where they could be filed. The next day Dozier found that he could get out on an Army plane to Panama himself. With Robert Shellaby, of the Christian Science Monitor, he "crawled, ran and sneaked to the embassy and, by jeep and bus, guarded by two soldiers, dashed to the airport...