Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Americans, the gasoline shortage is a frustrating inconvenience; for the physically handicapped, it is a direct threat to health and the ability to earn a living. People in wheelchairs or on crutches-those who have lost the use of their limbs-often cannot get on a bus or a train. They are utterly dependent on the auto to reach jobs, schools or therapists' offices. Some drive their own specially equipped cars, some rely on private transportation services that ferry them about, some are chauffeured by nonhandicapped members of their families...
Shortly before noon one day last week, startled soldiers of the battle-tested Egyptian Second Army intercepted an Israeli bus that had broached their perimeter near the Suez Canal. While troops in command cars trained machine guns on the vehicle, an Egyptian colonel boarded it and discovered that his men had just captured, of all people, 28 prosperous young American business and professional men who were on a United Jewish Appeal fund-raising tour...
...spur U.J.A. donations in the U.S., Israeli officials had sent the "young leadership group" on a supposedly routine bus trip through the captured Sinai territory that Israel is about to relinquish. After a picture-taking session at a United Nations checkpoint, however, the bus strayed too far down the Ismailia-Tassa road and into Egyptian hands...
...hard to decide whether captors or captives were more flustered. The U.J.A. fund raisers were kept aboard their bus for two hours by Egyptian soldiers while the colonel tried to decide what to do with his catch. Finally, he decided that the group should go to army headquarters in Ismailia for interrogation and asked them to blindfold themselves with handkerchiefs or coats. "Most of us used handkerchiefs," said Howard Stone, a full-time U.J.A. official in New York City. "It was easier to peek that way." Cracked one American as the bus drove off: "Now remember, you are only required...
...while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used to lubricate the gore machine. The Laughing Policeman is most barbarous of all: it primes viewers for two hours of pointless mayhem in the very first scene, when a nameless killer mows down eight strangers on a bus. (If the action slows at other points, Rosenberg tosses in a woman jumping to a splattered sidewalk death or a stoolie's face getting flushed in a urinal...