Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chris [Harvard Coach Hafferty] told us that Richmond was going to be up for the game just because they had taken such a long bus ride to play in this tournament," Forman said. "We really concentrated--it was by far our best game of this year...
...tiny Lesotho (pop. 1.6 million) last week than the cool night air erupted in explosions and flashes of light. But these were not fireworks welcoming the Pontiff. Blocks from the route the Pope's motorcade had taken through Maseru, the capital, South African commandos were storming a hijacked bus on which a band of antigovernment Lesotho guerrillas had been holding 71 Catholic pilgrims for 29 hours. When the gunfire ended, three of the four rebels lay dead. So did a 14-year-old girl, one of 31 children on board, who was killed in the cross fire. The fourth hijacker...
...because they believe the computer maker took a wrong turn in its evolution of the PC when the company introduced its new line of Personal System/2 computers in April 1987. For the more powerful machines in the PS/2 series, the company drastically revamped the wiring, known as a bus, through which bits of data travel to various parts of the computer. The new bus, which IBM calls the Micro Channel, enables a computer user to perform such functions as writing and printing simultaneously instead of having to perform each task in succession...
...apocryphal story has it that when professors planning to move to Washington for the Dukakis Administration line up for the ride, the Greyhound bus they expected will be replaced by a jeep, and a small one at that...
Then put the Huskies on a bus away from Connecticut Soccer Stadium--where UConn gave Harvard its toughest defensive battles last season, twice holding the Crimson scoreless in regulation play...