Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. In Knoxville, Tennessee, the bus waited half an hour while company officials decided what to do with Wright. He finally kept his set and spent a night with eyes glued to the road, looking for the road blocks that would mean vigilantes and mob violence. Police squad cars met the bus at each rest stop, but no questions were asked...
...singer. Author Davenport now lives in the high-rent East 70s and is the author of such best-sellers as The Valley of Decision and Of Lena Geyer. East Side, West Side is a glimpse at these two worlds. It straddles Manhattan in the manner of a crosstown bus, picking up a sampling of the city's polyglot population and giving them a good shaking-up as it goes along. At journey's end, only the well-heeled passengers are badly bruised...
...tied up all French ports for 48 hours; a transport strike in Paris paralyzed the Métro. As Premier Paul Ramadier's Government tried to break the strike, Paris' gentle autumn air grew heavy with menace. Armed, steel-helmeted guards stood outside barricaded subway entrances and bus depots. The Cocos (Paris argot for Communists) accused the Socialists of fomenting the strike, then absurdly belabored the Government for strikebreaking. (After De Gaulle's victory, the Communists prepared to call off the strike...
...miracle man" whose blessing cured the sick in mind and body. The healer was a humble parish priest named Padre Antonio Ribeiro Pinto. By last week he had become a national figure. To seek his blessing, thousands of Brazilians were traveling by special train, by chartered taxi and by bus and truck from as far south as Porto Alegre and as far north as Bahía. Reported TIME Correspondent William White, who went to see for himself...
...Freshman football team set out in quest of its second victory of the season yesterday afternoon, shoving off via bus from Dillon Field House 36 strong for the trip to Hanover and the Dartmouth '51 clash...