Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telling me how busy he was, things like that. And this guy had a Texan accent, and I like Texan accents so I asked him where he was from, and he told me Houston. And you know, I just didn't feel like taking the bus home that night, and I didn't want to call my father to come pick me up. So I asked him if he wanted to walk me home...
...from elementary school kids' choruses to large professional groups. The Harvard Glee Club sang the last pieces in the program. "It was a twenty minute program," Krieger says, "and we sang really well. Almost as well as we had ever sung. Afterwards, someone came up to me on the bus and said, 'You're part of the Harvard Glee Club, aren't you? If it hadn't been for your performance, the whole convention might have been a washout. You showed us what men's choral singing is all about. Thanks.' Well that was one of the nicest things that...
...Shuttle bus riders who have noticed B&G workers at the steering wheel need not worry that the customary student drivers are on strike, as they periodically threatened to do last winter. The workers are filling in because of a temporary shortage of licensed student drivers. Carl Swanson, who oversees shuttle services as B&G superintendant, says he hopes to have students in all the driving positions within the next few weeks. The students get about $5 per hour on the job, compared to $16 per hour for B&G workers, Swanson said...
Soweto, the sprawling black township which houses most of Johannesburg's Blacks, suffers from the world's highest crime rate. "Most of Soweto is not fit for humans," declares Fanyana Mazibuko, a banned former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...
...visited one of the homelands that has received independence, Bophuthatswana. Garbage lay scattered over barren fields dotted with corrugated iron shacks. Our bus passed another jammed with blacks returning home. A cage surrounded the driver. The Sun City hotel and casino rises majestically out of this wasteland...