Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their cranes frozen in midair. Hulks of taxis, virtually new trucks, and even public buses rust on roadsides or in overgrown lots because the few spare parts that trickle into Angola are funneled to the army. To its credit, however, the government has managed to maintain a reliable city bus system...
...entire continent of bubbly. Indeed, as the revelry roiled on, the only worry in many Australian minds was that the champers would run out. A 130-ft. by 65-ft. Australian flag was hung from Sydney Harbor bridge. In every village, town and city from Wollongong to Jiggalong, car, bus, train and ferry horns blared and ululated from daybreak on. Crude posters with messages like YOU BEAUTIES and WE KEELED THEM sprouted outside homes, shops and public buildings. At Brisbane's Crest International Hotel, the Early American Inn became the Australia II Inn, its Statue of Liberty decked with...
...readings proved correct five minutes later, when I careened past a Trailways bus. Those who go Big Red just can't compete with the Crimson...
...boycott of the city buses. The strike was so successful that Negro leaders decided to continue it until their demands were met. The demands: that Negroes be seated on a first-come, first-served basis without having to vacate their places for white passengers; that white bus drivers show more courtesy toward Negro passengers; that Negro drivers be employed on buses traveling mostly through Negro districts...
...raid, tied up traffic with their calls for gas masks and ambulances. In Harlem the godly gathered in prayer. Eight hundred and seventy-five panic-stricken people phoned the New York Times alone. St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, treated 15 people for shock. A man called the Dixie Bus Terminal, shouting "The World is coming to an end and I've got a lot to do!" In Providence frightened townsfolk demanded that the electric company black out the city to save it from the enemy...