Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August, frustrated by the School Committee's bussing opposition, two Roxbury mothers organized Operation Exodus, a community organization for bussing black children out of ghetto schools. Exodus soon branched from bussing into tutoring, as it realized no one could bus all of Roxbury's 44,000 victimized children out of their rotting schools...
...pence has the value of a 2-shilling piece (a florin). They are, however, the only two coins that are interchangeable in the entire series, which will be completed by the time conversion becomes total on February 15, 1971. The new coins caused a certain initial confusion: some London bus conductors refused to take them, taxi drivers grumbled at the nuisance and shoppers everywhere eyed their change suspiciously. For Americans, at least, the new system will end a rare period of relatively easy conversion: with the pound now pegged at $2.40, the old English penny for the first time equals...
...ruckus when the students' spotted the newsmen unpacking half a dozen posters with pro and con war slogans. Later, a spokesman for KNBC admitted that the posters were intended as "colorful additions to the set." On other occasions, a TV cameraman induced protesters to burn a city bus, while another persuaded two hippies to attempt to block President Johnson's entrance into a Washington club...
...have to go to the bathroom?" And Dartmouth? The Big Green bused southward on the weekend the annual Winter Carnival was being staged in Hanover, an event made even more depressing when, in the words of coach Susan Lutkus, "It took us as long to get from the bus station to the pool as it had from Hanover to Boston." Make that the thrill victory, the agony of defeat and the torture of traveling...
Despite their talk about "something, new in American politics," the McCarthy organization did nothing to change this aspect of American politics. They just didn't use the old methods with the efficiency to which reporters had become accustomed. And so the occupants of the press bus sometimes bit the hand that usually feeds is so smoothly...