Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there, buddy, how about moving back?" the driver said, meanwhile driving his bus just as fast as he could. The whole bus froze- whites at the front, blacks at the rear. They didn't want to believe what was happening was really happening. The seated black man said nothing. The standing white man said nothing...
...These is the niggers' seats!" the little lady in the strange outfit started screaming. "The Government gave us these seats!" I was startled at her tone and her statement-no man's land seats were not regarded as back of the bus. "The President said that these are the niggers' seats!" I expected her to start fighting at any moment. Evidently the bus driver did, too, because he was driving faster and faster. "I'm going to take you down to the station, buddy," he said...
...bus seemed to be going a hundred miles an hour, and everybody was anxious to get off. The black man stood at the exit door; the driver drove right past the A. & P. stop. I was terrified. I was sure the bus was going to the police station to put the black man in jail. The little woman had her hands on her hips and she never stopped yelling. The bus driver kept driving as fast as he could...
...there, in what seemed to be a flash of lightning, he flung both doors open wide. He and his black antagonist looked at each other in the rearview mirror; in a second the windbreaker and the porkpie hat were gone. The little woman was standing preaching to the whole bus about the Government's gift of these seats to the blacks; the white man with the brown shoes practically fell out of the door in his hurry. I followed the hurrying footsteps. The people who devised this system thought that it was going to last forever...
...cars at a time when the nation is trying to conserve on energy. Without federal help, New York's deteriorating, deficit-ridden subway system might have to raise fares (currently 600) beyond the reach of the poor. Los Angeles would lose $67 million in annual aid to its bus system, leading Mayor Tom Bradley to complain: "We can only raise fares or cut service, and neither is acceptable when we've been encouraging people to ride buses...