Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HIGHWAY 4, FLORIDA--The baseball season here is already over. The players have packed up and moved on, either to the big leagues and the adulation of millions, or the bushes and the contempt of waitresses at all-night diners on the bus trail from Butte to Lethbridge...
...crowds with revolutionary slogans. Leaflets passed out by the Peruvian Communist Party protested hunger and misery and stated the party's demands for job stability and the control of fuel and food prices. In one shantytown south of the city, small bands of youths flung rocks at bus windows. Almost all of Peru's privately owned buses stayed off the roads, making it difficult for many people to get to work. At least one-third of the work force in 16 cities decided to stay home...
...game. He is the most experienced major leaguer of all, 25 seasons, 26 if he latches on with Pittsburgh or some other team this year. This appears unlikely. Frankly, his seventh big-league uniform, bright yellow with black stripes, is not his particular favorite. "I feel like a school bus with lips," he says. But he expresses no self-consciousness trying out at 45. "All of us can't leave like Carl Yastrzemski or Johnny Bench," he says. "I don't feel like a one-dimensional person, but I just want to play. Pete Rose wants 200 more...
...favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying, and we all realized that something wonderful was being said about that family and about this...
...talent shows. We won the highest talent show in Indiana, and then we went over to Illinois and won there. It got so we could play nightclubs in Chicago like the High Chaparral and the Guys and Gals Club. This was on the weekends. I had a Volkswagen bus and I bought a big luggage rack and put it on top and had everybody on the inside of the bus. One day I noticed when I was coming out of the yard that the instruments on top of the bus were taller than the bus...