Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice without his tool creating new locations from where he's barred," he writes. Anyone who has ever endeavored to circumnavigate New York's Kennedy Airport on foot will immediately recognize his point. The Port Authority, in this case, has decided that even the casual visitor must ride a bus in order to merely enter the terminal next door. "The use of the bicycle is self-limiting. It allows people to create a new relationship between their life-time and life-space," he says. "Their new tool creates only those demands which it can also satisfy." North Vietnam...
Haggard ended up his stay in San Quentin as a model prisoner. He worked hard in the prison textile mill. "When I got out, they gave me $15 and a bus ticket home." Once back in Bakersfield, Merle dug ditches, and he sang...
...Electrogyro. Swiss designers pointed the way in the 1950s with a flywheel-powered bus called the Electrogyro, which operated in Europe and Africa for a number of years. To start up, the bus drew electricity from overhead wires to drive a combination motor-generator attached to a 3,300-lb. steel flywheel under the floor of the vehicle. When the motor had the flywheel turning at a speed of 3,000 r.p.m., the driver would break contact with the overhead wires. At this point, the motor would become a generator powered by the heavy flywheel, which would be kept spinning...
...According to that line of thinking, the judiciary overstepped its normal bounds [in the Brown decision] and was run over by a school bus," Wright said...
Rather than a noisy crew of twice-victorious Cornellians, the squad that boarded the bus was instead a disgruntled, somewhat shell-shocked bunch of ballplayers who had just split a doubleheader with Harvard. Five Crimson runs in the seventh had seen to that...