Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles south of home in Santa Monica when I got the news. I was taking the bus back from an afternoon class at UCLA. Accustomed to hearing news of such fires. I was intermittently daydreaming and listening to the news reports on the Mandeville Canyon fire, which had been raging since noon of the previous day. Suddenly, an account of another blaze came on. The words "Kanan Dume"--a road near us--cut through my reverie. Startled, I waited for elaboration and when none came glanced instinctively up the coast for the telltale black smudge on the horizon, Dark clouds...
Paradoxically, another encouraging sign developed last week out of an act of violence. Unidentified gunmen ambushed an Israeli bus only six miles southeast of Beirut on the main highway to Damascus, killing six Israeli soldiers and wounding 22. The next morning, in apparent retaliation, Israeli jets destroyed a Syrian S A-9 truck-mounted missile battery at Dar al Baideh, 20 miles east of Beirut...
...truck, followed closely by a pickup truck. The two latter appeared to be driven by smugglers of gasoline, who took off in the pickup. It was highly unlikely that they would go to the police. In fact, Colonel Beckwith believed they thought our team was Iranian police. But the bus passengers would have to be prevented from sounding an alarm. I approved the removal of all of them to Egypt by C-130 until the rescue itself was concluded, when they would be returned to Iran...
...grew up in south Georgia within a legally segregated society, and to the extent that I or my elders felt any responsibility at all for the status of my black playmates, the "separate but equal" ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed sufficient. As a child, I rode a bus to school each day with the other white students, while the black children walked, and never gave a thought to the lack of equality inherent in the separateness. Neither did the adults who managed the education system, nor the lawyers and judges in our courts, nor the Governor, nor those...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your tour guide speaking, welcoming you once again to the New England literary express. We ve already visited the houses of Hawthorne, Melville and Robert Frost. Next, a live one. Our bus is 25 miles north of Boston and nearing the seaside home of John Updike. Get your cameras ready. You will find the author's barony photogenic, and the author, if we should spot him, has weathered well himself. It might interest you to know that our subject and his second wife Martha moved here in the spring of 1982, a particularly productive...