Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country if we were to maintain this double standard." Then, in an event both startling and significant for a country in political hibernation for a decade, Thai university students took to the streets for their first political-protest demonstration in eleven years-initially against martial law, then against a bus-fare hike and high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched on the National Assembly building, on their way pushing down hastily erected metal barriers and hurling them into a canal. The police, backed by fire trucks, were at first stunned into inaction...
They wanted a four-bedroom house with a family room, near the Pentagon, a good school, church and bus line to Washington, D.C. The computer had the answer. When Reba Gardner called the broker selling it, he exclaimed, "My God, Reba. I just got that house a few minutes ago." An appointment was made for Major Dubois to see the house first thing the next morning. By 11 o'clock the deal was closed...
...bus passed the McKean Gate and the Voice told us to look inside and catch a glimpse of John Harvard's statue. "Until last year the statue was in Harvard Square. But every day the statue was painted a different color. So quite recently the authorities moved it into the Harvard Yard." The Sunglassed Voice seemed to be having a lot of trouble with his chronology. "I'm told you can buy anything you want in Harvard Square. Anything at all, Pot, anything. Notice the car registrations. They're from all over the world, and I do mean all over...
Eventually the bus passed by the Law School, Lesley College ("This is where you'd send your daughter if you wanted her to be a teacher."), and reached the Agassiz Museum. "Here are the world famous glass flowers. Don't back in any further than the big branch, I'd rather stick out a little bit than bust another branch. Take the center path and ride the elevator to the glass flowers, third floor...
After the glass flowers were inspected, the bus moved back down Massachusetts Avenue to the Common. A be-in was in session. "Here's an example of free speech, some guy talkin to a crowd of people about sumpthin he knows nuthin about. On the right-hand side is the Sheraton-Commander Hotel, Cambridge's oldest...