Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ride from Marcy to the events is 11 miles long, but the twisting back roads stretch the trip to nearly an hour. The passengers on the bus go crazy when we pass the flame, everyone squeezing to one side, pressing his face against the icy windows. No one says a word--it is more important just to look and absorb and think. The gasping starts when we pass the ski jumps. At first they look so steep no one knows what they are. A little blue speck is descending on the taller jump. He flies. The bus is silent. Then...
...busdriver has no idea where he is going but some people toward the front of the bus are trying to give him directions in their school-book French, and the driver inadvertantly smiles. He thinks we might be lost. The disorganized Official Olympic Organizing Committee hired Canadian drivers to fill in for the American drivers who walked out when the Committee hired Canadians. That's the story circulating in the bus and around town; the transportation mess is so confusing it's hard to blame anyone, but sometime during the weekend, the Committee officially blames itself...
After congratulating the athletes, the spectators quickly form three lines outside, and when the wait gets long enough, Saranac and Marcy and Whiteface start talking to each other. Then they start singing together. By the time the Saranac bus pulls in, the three lines are belting out "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in rounds. Near the back of the lines, students are staging the Official Pretzel Tossing Contest...
...destroyed Romney's chances? "Well...er no, not really," replied the Senator. "Anyway, I think in that case a light rinse would have been sufficient.'" (Romney "kept on campaigning in the same way a dead man's fingernails keep growing," wrote Timothy Crouse '68 in The Boys on the Bus--but withdrew shortly before New Hampshire voted...
Like a first-term Congressman, Kennedy lumbered around New Hampshire last week in a scruffy chartered bus overflowing with reporters. He slogged through streets, grimy factories and high school gyms in a determined effort to rescue his shaky political fortunes. But the Maine results had at least revived his hopes. Contributions, which had dried up after Iowa, were coming back in (to about $750,000 as of last week), and staffers were going back on the payroll...