Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wolff's book, we find out about the agonizing marathon bus trips between cities which the ballplayers have to endure, often in sweltering heat...
There may be a Harvard water-polo season this year. There may be a season, that is, if somebody can scrape together enough cash to buy the team a ball to play with, or to buy bus tickets to a few away matches. Or maybe to hire a coach, or to rent a pool where the team can practice more than two or three times a week. Last year, Harvard's Athletic Department shelled out $250 to keep the waterballers afloat. This year, the squad has been told to sink or swim--without a penny from the University...
...made it to the shuttle bus that runs between the Logan subway stop and the various Logan terminals, saluting the uniform of the bewildered bus driver as he boarded...
...black and white, got together and forced the Boston school system to provide equal education, you could keep your children in your neighborhood and I could keep my children in mine. Instead, my children get up at 5:30 a.m. They leave at 6:30 a.m. to catch a bus out to the suburbs. They arrive home after 4 p.m. My five-year-old spends 2¼ hours in school and two hours in transportation every...
...South Boston High School last week, no one got off. For half an hour, the 51 black students who have attended Southie every day since school began this fall under the city's court-ordered desegregation program stayed in their seats. Finally, headmaster William Reid ordered the bus drivers to take them back home. At other schools throughout the city, there were similar scenes. Reason: almost all of Boston's 4,950 public school teachers were out on strike. The walkout-in defiance of a state law prohibiting strikes by public employees-effectively paralyzed Boston...