Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profanity," he just laughed a little nervously. But, a few hours later, Hersh justified Time's description when he found that someone in McCarthy's headquarters had handed out an important news release in Milwaukee while most of the newmsen were jogging along Wisconsin back roads in the press bus...
...were "crybabies" it was principally because the McCarthy organization did a poor job of feeding them the Pablum which is the constant diet of most newsmen covering campaigns. Most reporters--particularly those from the wire services and the second-rate dailies--remain encased in the womb of the press bus or plane and file a stream of speech stories, color stories, and isolated voter reaction stories fed to them in press releases or by word of mouth by the candidate's press staff. In between deadlines, they gossip about politician, view the scenery, or ask around for the name...
...took his first pastorate in Montgomery, Ala. There in 1955, a seamstress' tired feet precipitated the first great civil rights test of power and launched King's galvanic career. Mrs. Rosa Parks's arrest for re fusing to give her seat on a town bus to a white man ended 382 days later with capitulation of the Montgomery bus line to a comprehensive Negro consortium and the U.S. Supreme Court. King, too new to Montgomery to have enemies in the usually fragmented Negro community, became its chief. His march to martyrdom had begun...
...Henry Miller? Then he flew back to Manhattan for a week of receptions and sightseeing ("The enormous crispness! You're all so busy! Rather exciting!"). Durrell confided that he found the two coasts so fascinating that he's coming back next spring for a three-month bus tour of all the land in between. "There hasn't been a good travel book about America since Dick ens," said he. "Maybe Henry and I can write...
...made it still rarer. On the second day of deliberations, instead of packing the jurors back into the jury room after lunch, he put them alone on a county sightseeing bus, where they could argue and think amid the pleasanter surroundings of passing scenery...