Word: bus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about 7.30 a.m., Hamilton Jordan arrives at the White House by bus, or is driven from his Capitol Hill home by his wife Nancy-causing him daily to rue Jimmy Carter's decision to strip his assistants of limousine service. But one plus about his job as the key senior adviser to the President is the fact that he does not have to cope with rush-hour traffic. He comes to work too early and leaves too late...
...Since the social contract held all increases to a flat monetary standard and ruled out raises in Phase 1 above a $14,000-a-year ceiling, the effect was to push low wages upward and restrict higher ones. A machine-tool operator in British Leyland's truck and bus division now makes more a week ($118.84) than his supervisor...
...probably only at Hemenway Gym, where Desaulniers, a freshman, established himself this winter as Harvard's top squasher, faster than it takes the bus boys at 33 Dunster St. to clear away the empty mugs...
...Historians] manage to discuss the reform of insane asylums in the first half of the 19th century without mentioning Dorothea Dix, muckraking without mentioning Ida Tarbell, and the Montgomery bus boycott without mentioning Rosa Parks...
...kids (ages five months to 20 years). Now he travels as much to get out of Plains as to garner honorariums. Says Billy: "Hell, Plains is turning into a three-ring circus." So much so that Billy has been all but driven from his familiar haunts: a discarded school bus seat blocks access to the back room of the famous service station where he quaffs his afternoon beers, and nobody is admitted unless the employee who stands guard gives the O.K. Billy has even bought 170 acres of secluded woodland not far from town to build a new house, hidden...