Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question most purely: Why all of that expensive motion? Why do we travel? To penetrate mysteries? The earth does not withhold many secrets any more. Everyone who did not, for one reason or another, travel to China last year is sure to go this year. A tour bus runs down nearly every street in the global village. When does travel degenerate into snobbism or a stunt? Lars-Eric Lindblad, impresario of the edifyingly exotic, takes the vacationing bartender where Darwin most remotely went...
...children of the industrial age poured south to dream upon the ruins. Motives are always rich and varied: travel means forms of freedom. Japanese men flock to sex tours in Seoul, Bangkok and Manila (a woman waiting in the lobby of the hotel when you get off the bus from the airport...
...love to drive!" says Gertrude Karmiol, 81, of Miami Beach, Fla. But she does it badly. According to the police, three months ago she plowed into a bench at a crowded bus stop, killing three people and injuring five others; when told of the deaths, she remarked, "How nice." Furthermore, she had already had two accidents in recent years in which three more had been hurt. Her license had not been lifted because she had not been convicted of anything in the first two cases; this time she is charged only with "careless driving resulting in death" (maximum punishment...
Thus his 1980 campaign chronicle is not the familiar insider's tale of life on the trail. He is no longer a boy on the bus seeking out the behind-the-scenes moments that give dimension to the electoral odyssey. "The outdoor reporting seems to shrink in significance, and what remains most relevant is the quiet moments at my desk," he concludes. "I could sit at home and learn as much or more about the frame of the campaign as I could on the road...
...more than skill on the river. Two Carrier seniors looking to boost boat morale hung a banner from the B.U. bridge that read: "You keep the Preppies We'll take the Cup." In the same spirit, about 120 Currierites showed up at the races courtesy of a special shuttle bus chartered by House officials that travelled from Currier to Weld Boathouse all morning...