Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tore me down-and my family," says Wardrip. He claims, however, that he left the flag hanging in his bus "to show my patriotism-honest. I dig the flag." Unmoved, Judge Rees stood by his sentence, the intent of which, he said, was "embarrassment." Rees certainly achieved that intent. But was using the flag as a partition a much greater desecration than using it as a means of embarrassing a U.S. citizen...
Outside the Capitol, thousands of protesters arrived by bus from major Eastern cities to denounce cuts in the poverty program. "King Richard may as well get ready for a long hot summer," threatened Ralph Abernathy, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Added Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King: "My husband's dream of a just society has been deferred, and it is now on the verge of being destroyed...
...tens of thousands of readers, young and old, the first meeting of Castaneda with Juan Matus?which took place in 1960 in a dusty Arizona bus depot near the Mexican border?is a better-known literary event than the encounter of Dante and Beatrice beside the Arno. For Don Juan's teachings have reached print at precisely the moment when more Americans than ever before are disposed to consider "non-rational" approaches to reality. This
...Perhaps the Vicious Virgin exotic Polynesian drink was responsible for the victory at Williams," he speculated, "but it may be that the cheap wine on the bus to New Haven accounted for the slow play at Yale Saturday morning...
...painful triumvirate. Each has a story to tell, and each tells it in detail; the two older women end their stories by recounting how their husbands left them. Lil's husband, who comes home drunk every night because there happens to be a pub on the corner where his bus lets him off after work each night, seems to be headed down the same track...