Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Improbably, he got off a bus at the first theater he saw, asked for a job, and got one-painting sets and boiling glue. Two years later, he was making $5 a week doing walk-ons. This was the threshold of solvency, apparently, for he never went near a university or the Foreign Office...
...tunnel entrance, Swiss and Italian formalities are handled in a single customs office, and drivers pay the fares, ranging from 90? for a motorbike to $18 for a bus. The neon-lit tunnel, 14 ft. 9 in. high, rides over a pipeline that brings oil from Genoa to a Swiss refinery at Collombey. The new St. Bernard, which will be formally inaugurated by the presidents of Italy and Switzerland in June, is the world's longest auto tunnel. But not for long. The Mt. Blanc tunnel of over seven miles from France to Italy will surpass it when...
...regulars stepped off the bus wearing oiled boots, scruffy knapsacks, faded blue jeans. Bright-eyed, they talked of things and places far removed from everyday city life: of lady fern and sorrel, of landmarks with such strange-sounding names as Evolution Valley and Tuolumne Meadows, of high places where the air is pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough...
Malcolm was frank, alluringly frank, about some things. He challenged the audience with his views of political bankrupcy, the need for violent self-defense by Negroes in the South, and the hypocrisy of white liberals. "White liberals don't want to bus their children into Negro schools, but they do, for fear they will be called racists. What we need is sincere communication with white men who see that integration won't work." Appealing alternately to the sympathy and honesty of his audience, Malcolm argued for racial separatism, non non-violence, a militant, realistic Negro youth...
...small part in Breakfast at Tiffany's, she brought her three small children with her. The youngest, Theo, was being wheeled across upper Madison Avenue in his carriage when a taxi went through a red light, hit the carriage, and carried it into the rear of a bus...