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Word: bus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes it more difficult for students to attend off-hours extra-curricular activities, to stay after school for extra help, and to use special school facilities such as libraries or computers. The local control of parents over education is also weakened by a more distant school. The extended bus ride itself can be at best troublesome and at worst dangerous...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: The Failure of Busing | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...Congress is expecting a wave of gratitude for the tax refund [April 7], they can forget it. It is like being fawningly grateful when a holdup man gives you bus fare home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Apr. 21, 1975 | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...family had the courtesy to return a purse which belonged to me. I had left it in the Robert E. Lee restaurant on Friday evening. It contained a large amount of money as I was the tour director for the Michigan Tech fan bus. I am greatly indebted for their kindness and concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NOTE OF THANKS | 4/17/1975 | See Source »

...rolling up to the line with unvented 50 gallon drums of gas rolling around loose in the back of vans. That's 200 gallons of explosion ready to go off as these ninny jackrabbits pile through towns. And through stoplights. I could just see it--piling into a school bus, killing fiteen chillun," said the Bolus and Snopes man. This year Brock decided he wouldn't have any of those guys." Yates has set up an elaborate screening system. Potential entrants must send in $5 to Cannonball Enterprises at a P.O. Box near Yates's New York country home...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...Bus arrives Grove Street, in the heart of Oak Grove. Still unremarkable. Fare $40. To determine the fare the bus driver asks the passengers as they get off where they had gotten on. Honor system. At Quincy on the Red Line last fall a young man was shot for jumping a turnstile, Not the honor system, Policy on the new Orange Line not yet disclosed by MBTA...

Author: By William Englund, | Title: In Search of Oak Grove | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

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