Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will all take time," Balboni explains as he stares down into the pit where incoming and outgoing tunnels will eventually travel. He excitedly discusses the underground bus tunnel that will be constructed above the subway tunnel. The 80 men working in the pit below look, from 100 ft. above, like beetles scurrying...
Amid these indications of increasingly ruthless conflict, TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger crossed the country last week. Traveling by public bus with Tyler Marshall of the Los Angeles Times, she journeyed hi six days from Spinbaldak on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the city of Herat in the far west. Her report...
...western Pakistan, Afghanistan is a desert carpet of brown and beige, smudged with dust devils rising to the sky. Up close, it is a land stubbornly clinging to its nationhood and seething with hatred for the Soviet invaders, the shuravi. Almost as soon as we boarded our first bus, at the border, we were asked a question that would be repeated everywhere we went: "What is your country?" Our reply invariably drew smiles and approving nods. "Ah, Amer-eeka. Good," they said...
...will all take time," Balboni explains as he stares down into the pit where incoming and outgoing tunnels will eventually travel. He excitedly discusses the underground bus tunnel that will be constructed above the subway tunnel. The 80 men working in the pit below look, from 100 ft. above, like beetles scurrying...
This was no ordinary bus. Anybody could tell as much from the fact that folks are being welcomed aboard by a human-sized cat of polka-dotted green. The mimic cat, it turns out, is named Readmore. And he-or she, or it-is part of the crew of this onetime school bus that the Indiana department of public instruction has dressed up as a roving Read-A-Rama, or bookmobile. The rig has rolled into leafy Claypool (pop. 464), the smallest of 102 cities and towns on its route, to stir up interest in reading by giving some books...