Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground. I know because I live on it," she says. "You take all kinds of stands that you find ridiculous later. For a long time, I refused to own a house because I felt badly about owning something blacks couldn't. But every time I travel--on a segregated bus--or go to any cinema. I'm doing things blacks...
...sympathizes less when his mother errs. Though her offenses were less reprehensible, Wolff bears down on them harshly. When ten-year-old Geoffrey discovers his mother in bed with a grimy ex-Sarasota policeman, he reaches a verdict instantly--"it was all over"--and he catches the next bus to California to set up house for the next 20-odd years with father...
...nothing could be simple: Ithaca has no airport. (I'm still looking for a bus station.) So the Cornell-bound must fly to Syracuse first. Hospitable Allegheny Airlines serves Syracuse four times daily; but on this day, most of the east coast had decided to head for that city's Hancock Airport. So with a 7:00 p.m. soccer game in Ithaca to cover, the Sports Cube contingent slipped on to flight 295. a 6:10 p.m. departure for Syaracuse, and the only seats we could...
...some souvlaki, with a big finish at Durgin Park and maybe a half-gallon of beer. Zimmer's face looks like an aging Vegas stripper's silicone-sagging buttocks. He's already cost the club a fortune, what with bolstering the dugout bench and increased drag on the team bus, and he's not exactly defraying the expenses with World Series checks. And look what he's done to the country: House Speaker Tip O'Neill said he was "hahtbroken, just hahtbroken" when the Sox lost against the Yankees last year. No one knows how long O'Neill's funk...
...bus trip takes only about a half-hour. Police cars and remnants of the crowd that saw the Pope still line the streets. At Beacon and Charles Streets, the Greyhound buses grind to a halt--and the pack is off again. In the Common garage is another press filing center--more typewriters, phones and telexes. And ladies serving food from U-Haul trailers. But there are more police checking the entry points. "Jesus Christ," says the one who looks at my lens, "there are more journalists than Catholics in Boston today...