Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although the future preponderance of the veil is dubious, it still prevails as the norm. Most young women in the cities wear Western clothes, but the vast majority in rural areas retain the veil and traditional caftan. In certain instances the veil seems ridiculous, such as on a long bus ride...
Long-distance buses have every modern contraption--airplane seats, music, and even a copious box lunch. The women scuttle onto the bus, swaddled in layers and layers of travelling caftan; only their eyes are visible. In the more conservative southern regions women are supposedly allowed to expose only one eye, though it is often attested that they observe much more with that one eye than other people do with...
...sixth-graders at the Arlington, Va., Long Branch Elementary School did some research on both the butterfly and the mantis and found the mantis, which has a reputation for ferocity because the female eats the male after mating, to be more socially useful. The youngsters then organized their own bus trip to Virginia's capital, Richmond, after the state senate adopted the butterfly. Appearing before the Virginia house of delegates, which was still in debate on the issue, Fifth-Grader John Meyers, aged 10, proclaimed: "The praying mantis is a noble insect, defending mankind from other predators." The mantis...
...players, usually travels by car, avoiding any show of favoritism; although a non-Mormon, he is also a nonsmoker. If constant traveling does breed a unique togetherness, it also reveals the peculiar schism between the Mormons and other members of the orchestra. Aboard the Saints' bus, the majority of passengers are women, mostly string players who have been with the orchestra for years. Mormon prayer books are much in evidence, and hymn sing-alongs help to pass time. With the Sinners, it is not only smokier: the passengers are predominantly men, many new to the orchestra, and the talk...
...medium-priced autos. That, in part, explains how Daimler-Benz and BMW managed to steer through the recession with barely a falter. Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars rose from 331,682 in 1973 to 350,098 in 1975. Buoyed by that performance as well as by rising truck and bus production (229,-303, up 11.7% from 1974), Daimler-Benz is now Europe's largest automotive manufacturer, with sales of $8.1 billion in 1975, compared with VW's $7.4 billion...