Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawn signs have disappeared and the bumper stickers are peeling off. Advertising space, on bus sides and in subway cars, is unused. It is almost two weeks after the general elections, and the promp has died down Now, newly elected office holders are busy working on a less glamorous, but equally important project--their transitions into power...
...Harvard women's soccer team had more time than expected to savor Friday night's 2-1 win over Brown in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The bus of their Saturday opponents, Yale, broke down, and the Elis never made it to Cambridge...
Coming off a string of bad results, Hartwick--a perennial powerhouse in collegiate soccer--started rolling in the past two weeks with wins over Ivy League-leading Columbia and nationally ranked Philadelphia Textile. And when the Crimson booters jumped off the bus in the little hamlet of Onconta, their hosts were prepared to play...
Wandell ("Wendy") Smith, 49, came up with his wife on a Greyhound bus from Ranger, W. Va., in 1955. The only work was in the coal mines, and, he says, "I was afraid of the mines. The spring flood had run us out of the house twice in two weeks. After I got it cleaned up, I said, 'Let's go.' " The Smiths left Ranger on a Sunday night, and by Wednesday morning Wendy had found work with a water-cooler firm. The job lasted 13 years. "Then the company moved off and left us," he says...
...collegiate slang. To get naked means to have a good time, whether or not sex is involved. (That is a new shortened form of the get-drunk-and-get-naked party, which collegians fantasized about 20 years ago.) At Michigan State University, one who is vomiting is driving the bus, a reference to the toilet seat and the wretch's need to hang on to it. Sckacks means ugly. A two-bagger is a girl who requires exactly that to cover her ugliness. Young women, of course, retaliate. At breakfast in Bates Hall at Wellesley, they wonder, "Why bother...