Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 60 Harvard students traveled by bus to Manchester for the march, staged to "bring pressure to bear" on candidates who support draft registration...
...Harvard hockey team spent most of Tuesday night stranded by the side of a road outside Albany, N.Y., when the bus that was supposed to take them to Cornell took a five-hour nap in the snow...
...shouted a Cuban teacher standing beside a battered Soviet bus. "iVenga, venga, venga [Hurry up]!" Emerging silently like guerrillas from behind endless rows of grapefruit trees were 25 Mozambican boys, dressed in well-washed jeans and carrying sharp, long-bladed pruning knives. Striding in an orderly single file onto the bus that would carry them to lunch at their school, the boys burst spontaneously into well-harmonized songs praising African solidarity and the works of their country's President, Samora Machel. "They are always singing," beamed the Cuban teacher. "It's part of their national tradition...
...island is not all work and no play. Each of the schools has a soccer field and courts for basketball and volleyball. There are barbershops for the boys and hairdressing salons for girls, most of whom are coiffed with intricate "corn-row" braids. On Sundays there are bus trips to nearby beaches or sightseeing tours of the island. Sex is not a problem, the teachers insist. "They are told the facts of life, but there is no formal sex education as such," said a Mozambican instructor. Girls are free to talk with women teachers about the problems of puberty. "They...
...hotel in San Juan. When John Connally arrived on the island the previous night he was wearing blue pinstripes, but this morning he appeared in an embroidered white cotton shirt called a guayabera. Waving and smiling in the blazing sunshine, the candidate bounded onto an orange sightseeing bus, and the seven-vehicle motorcade lurched off toward city hall. As the procession crept along the traffic-snarled Las Americas Expressway, the candidate began booming out "Buenos días" from the open bus door to motorists and pedestrians along the way. Some waved and some yelled back, but a good many...