Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Bereday, professor of Comparative Education at Columbia University, began last Tuesday's Forum on Modern France by noting the similarity between a bus, a girl and an educational theory: in each case, another will be along shortly...
...honor," stole more than $250 in lire and gold coins and fled for the hills. From then on, Kocero virtually ruled what few roads there were in the southeast. In a single day, he and his band of five or six men looted 200 people by halting one bus after another on a main highway, made off with nearly $20,000. As a sideline, he got fat fees for guiding smugglers of opium, cattle, coffee, silks and jewelry across the Turkish-Syrian border...
...white labor. Let these damn trifling niggers starve for a couple of years, then they'd see what a soft thing they have." Negro Novelist Ralph Ellison says that the enduring Dilsey Gibson reminds him of the real-life Rosa Parks, who touched off the Birmingham, Ala., bus boycott one day in 1955 when she refused to stand up for a white passenger because her feet hurt. Lucas Beauchamp catches to perfection the abrasive, unbending independence of a man like James Meredith, who integrated the University of Mississippi three months after Faulkner's death...
...bookies legally avoid payment? Britons argued the pros and cons in bus queues and on commuter trains. Under Britain's Gaming Act legislation, a bettor cannot sue a bookmaker and vice versa. The police indicated that they saw no grounds for action against anybody, but the bettors' bible, The Sporting Life, warned that in refusing to pay, the bookmakers "have done themselves and their calling the greatest disservice possible." Besides loss of public confidence, the bookies might have to face a protest when their licenses come up for renewals in February...
...however, he plans a small detour en route to a visit to Moscow. He wants to visit his mother, now well past 80, and for the first time, the grave of his only son, Tin Maung (Timmy), who was killed two years ago at 21 in a Rangoon bus accident...