Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation continued at an annual rate of over 300 per cent. (These figures were confirmed in January by El Mercurio, one of Santiago's three pro-junta newspapers). We had feared we would be searched at the border, but we had the good fortune to be in the same bus as a lieutenant of the Carabineros, Chile's national police. He was smuggling in a large cache of Argentina whiskey, so we sailed right through customs...
REMEMBER, back in grammar school or something, you went into New York on a Sixth Grade Field trip and you threw stuff around on the bus; you had to get dressed up because you were going into The City, and you had to be on your best behavior, so the bus stopped down there someplace and you got out and looked around and all the people around you were real mean-looking and not-particularly-dressed-up either and coming out of XXX Bookstores and lying in the gutter, so you went into the theater and saw this show with...
...questions like, "Why are you running for President?'" Franken said, shaking his head. "So I asked him how he could be against decriminalization of marijuana and be against motorcycle helmet legislation because motorcycle helmets infringe of people's rights. Then the assistant press secretary threw me off the press bus. Reagan is just...
...Southern culture was in the midst of its greatest upheaval since the days of post-Civil War reconstruction. In 1954, the Supreme Court had issued the Brown decision, declaring "separate but equal" schools unconstitutional. One year later the modern civil rights movement had begun in Alabama with the Montgomery bus boycott. Like any group of rational human beings facing dramatic change, Alabamians were anxious and uncertain...
...stretched his long legs down the tavern booth. His two cheeseburgers and draft beer sat untouched in front of him. He was, with characteristic gusto, into his subject. "These goddam elitist liberals," he said, "almost succeeded in running the workingman out of the Democratic Party." He spotted a passing bus through the window and began pumping his finger toward it. "They made that bus driver out there feel illiberal; they turned him into a caricature...