Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shuttle-bus driver Mulugeta Seraw had just been dropped off by friends at his apartment in Portland, Ore., when a car pulled up. Out jumped three young men sporting shaved heads, military jackets and heavy work boots. Shouting racial slurs, they set upon the 28-year-old Ethiopian, kicking and beating him with a baseball bat. Eight hours later Seraw died in a Portland hospital. Authorities say he was the third person murdered in the U.S. by racist toughs called skinheads...
Keep calm when the buses don't show up, when people give the wrong directions to the field, when the team is stuck in traffic 10 minutes before the game, when the bus diver leaves with the play books, when the team drinks a hotel out of milk. Keep calm? Somehow, the football managers...
Final score: Harvard 3, Princeton 2. The Crimson took the first bus out of Baker Rink. Just another tough game...
...life isn't the only inspiration for the film. "It's only biographical to a point," he adds. Unlike the film's protagonist, Thompson says he did not break into the county office to steal his draft papers, though he did drive across the country in a leaf-painted bus, seeing the world and "trying to find peace...
...members of the Harvard hockey team lost in the woods of Western Massachusetts without a bus or map and they would still be back in Cambridge by tomorrow night...