Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jody's schedule as a $240-a-year mayor is even more demanding than one might suppose. A freshman at nearby Emmetsburg Community College, Mayor Smith drives a 24-mile school bus route twice daily, before and after commuting to school. On days when he is busy studying or meeting with the five-man town council, he turns the bus chores over to Brother Len-who presumably picks up enough extra change thereby to pay his beer fines...
...trial it is, not simply of France's conduct of the war, but of French political life. The movie opens with an apparently mindless act of terrorism that occurred one day in 1954. A country bus is machine-gunned by Algerian rebels on a mountain road, and several Algerians, both French and Moslem, are killed. Though few realize it, the war has begun. The film goes on to trace the growth of Algerian nationalism, led for the most part by bemedaled Moslem veterans of World War II who fought with the Free French and came home to find that...
...squad had met shortly after noon at Dillon Field House, where it was scheduled to board a bus for the Army campus. Disturbed by the "conditions of political oppression, economic exploitation, and open conflict in the world today," team members discussed for nearly four hours possible methods of making a "formal expression of revulsion...
...into a strong friendship with the people you work with. Even people you never really got to know--the person who came with you when you first went out at night to throw leaflets under the doors--even those people you remember and respect. You climb on the bus one day and you recognize the conductor as the man who went with you on your first effort, and he recognizes you, you just say "hello" and he presses your hand when he gives you the changes. That was it, but at that moment you knew that you could count...
...loved one, sells for as much as $50) for the Pregnancy Puff? There are practical reasons, insists K.T. Maclay, a married writer who invented the P.P. jointly with Unmarried Designer Linda Sampson. For one thing, she insists, it almost guarantees the wearer a seat on a crowded bus. For another, it is a surefire conversation piece at a cocktail party. She reports that one anxious mother bought a puff for her 17-year-old daughter to wear on a cross-country car trip, explaining that "she'll be safer if people think she's pregnant...