Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upon by six white youths who had been demonstrating against busing in front of Boston's modern city hall. Spearing and clubbing Landsmark with a flagpole from which an American flag fluttered wildly, they broke his nose and left him badly cut and bruised. Then two black bus drivers in predominantly white and fiercely antibusing South Boston were beaten by five or six white youths; two white drivers who tried to help defend them were also pummeled...
...hopelessly snarled. Some 500,000 regular users of city transportation (including thousands of schoolchildren) had to find another way to get to their destinations. Most hiked or biked uncomplainingly up the city's hills. But more than a third of the student body was absent because some school-bus service had been curtailed. When boilers broke down, many schools went without heat. Some city fountains were overflowing because there was no one to repair them, and burst water mains went unattended. Streets were dirty, and uncollected garbage piled...
...example, instead of having the major access to the development be an entry ramp to the Mass Pike, why not cooperate with the MBTA to expand bus or trolley service to the area and lay out the buildings for easy ommunication with the bus stops...
...small bar for a few beers. In walked a beautiful little girl, about eight years old, selling aspirin, trailed by three or four smaller brothers and sisters. Her name was Silvia, and she and her charges sell in the streets from early morning until they catch the last bus home before the 1 a.m. curfew. We bought some aspirins, and she went shyly up to Enrique, put her arm around him and gave him a big kiss...
January 26--On the bus headed north. Hans walked me to the bus station and I gave him some books I had. He would sell them in order to buy his lunch. He encouraged me to tell people in the United States what I had seen in Chile, once again reminding me that it was worse than Germany in the 1930s. He said he was still optimistic. "I was born left and I will die left," he said. "Wherever we of the left go in the world, we have friends," he said. I thought about that, and about other things...