Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington), the Americans were met by former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and rushed toward two blue buses. Colonel Schaefer, however, headed instead toward a crowd of spectators, embraced several onlookers and chatted with them. Did he know them? "No," he replied to a fellow passenger on the bus, "but it felt good." On the 25-mile ride to the hospital in Wiesbaden, one of the former hostages raised his hand and sought permission to ask a question. Another asked whether he could light a cigarette. They were reminded by one of the escorts that they were free...
...Warsaw, meanwhile, union leaders called a four-hour bus and streetcar strike at week's end to protest threatened pay cuts for workers who had stayed away from their jobs the previous Saturday. Other stoppages took place in the southern towns of Legnica and Mielec. Solidarity accused the Warsaw authorities of reneging on a promise to reduce the work week from six to five days. The government had granted the concession during negotiations that ended last summer's crippling national strike wave...
...someone else. Says English Actor Michael Caine: "When I was young I couldn't afford a car, and now that I'm rich I can afford a chauffeur." Richard Harris, the Irish actor, has not driven since the merry day he had a donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule Channel Island home of Alderney until the evening he dropped in-literally-on a fisherman friend; he drove...
...terrarium somebody forgot about for three years so that everything inside it has rotted, providing mulch for all the worst fungus and scumcrawlers in God's imagination. Everything is painted in aggressive tempera paints, greens and reds as flat as a Boston accent, and a horrible school-bus-yellow. I don't have to tell you what school-bus-yellow means in this town. I am beginning to get nervous. The American flag is hung up backwards, at least from where I'm sitting. There is a loud menacing rumble and whistling from the heating system. I am nervous, nervous...
...Abraham Lincoln. A hundred years later, it continued that process led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For generations, white Americans had countenanced prejudice and discrimination and Black Americans, intimidated by violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when he had the tactical sense and the courage to face the firehoses and dogs in Birmingham and Albany and Selma and across the South were the mass of Americans moved enough to take concrete action...