Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home turf, and my doubts were reinforced nightly when I made collect phone calls back to Sue in Boston and she told me I miss you, come back home. Money was getting low, jobs were scarce, and I was lonely. I promised Sue I'd take the next bus back east. I didn...
...people all over. They were all so friendly, so warm, and I was being tempted back to the farm. They made Buster and me promise to come to dinner at the Hearst House that evening. I was weak and confused; Buster was wise. He put me on the next bus heading east
...bus was full. Just behind us a loudmouthed Scandinavian with Cuban sympathies alternately cursed Greyhound, the United States and the youth of America. The youth of America was across from him, represented by Stephen, a harmonica-playing punk, making advances on his seat companion, a blousy young woman with a baby...
...under the overhead reading lights we looked hearty. We carried our suitcases from station locker to bus with a semblance of ease. No longer did the seats bruise our kneecaps or cramp our muscles, and at times we slept...
While more mass transit is a must, the statement says, new rail transit lines are "appropriate" in only "a few highly populated metropolitan areas." Elsewhere, top priority should go to improving existing bus and subway service, even if the money has to come from funds earmarked for roads...