Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drinking alone in the office one night when this dame wanders in. Real sweet, she was, with coal dust in her long blonde hair and a crumpled bus ticket in her fist. "Scranton," she sighed by way of explanation, in a voice that trailed off like the Doppler effect of a passing 18-wheeler on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I poured her a stiff one, and she poured me her story: "I have this terrific manuscript, but please don't ask how I got it, and I just have to get into the newspapers before they do." "They?" "The syndicate...
...seems that she went to bed with him only because he reminded her of a sailor she missed an assignation with when she was 14. A middle-aged woman keeps having seriocomic fights with the daughter and son-in-law she is trying to live with. She rejects a bus driver whose intentions are honorably dishonorable-and might offer a means of escape-in order to talk the night away with a homosexual...
With roads in Massachusetts clogged by mounds of snow, Governor Michael Dukakis banned all public-bus and private-car travel, but not before thousands of motorists were already stranded...
PHILADELPHIA--It's bad enough having to go to Philadelphia, but when you have to make the six-hour jaunt by bus, only to lose a hockey game, well, it's downright mortifying...
...also available, on the same call-in basis, to students who are temporarily handicapped and unable to use the regular bus service, at 495-5280, Fielder said...