Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a trying day indeed, Harry thought as he rode a bus home, but at least he could look forward to a trip to Florida the following week with his wife Harriet. That is, until Flyway Air called: "Sorry, Mr. Hapless. Due to our merger with Byway Air, your Florida flight has been canceled." Harry got so angry he was going to call the Federal Aviation Administration / immediately. But just then his phone went dead -- no doubt because the Bell System had been split up, he imagined. Well, that was the last straw. A few minutes later a wild-eyed...
There has, of course, been progress. Americans of middle age can still remember when blacks had to move to the back of the bus as it crossed the border from Washington into the Virginia suburbs, when Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night...
...tucked safely in the breast pocket of a faded leather jacket, is all that keeps George from losing himself to the streets. When he wakes each morning from his makeshift bed of newspapers in the subway tunnels of Philadelphia, he heads for the rest room of a nearby bus station or McDonald's and begins an elaborate ritual of washing off the dirt and smells of homelessness: first the hands and forearms, then the face and neck and finally the fingernails and teeth. Twice a week he takes off his worn Converse high tops and socks and washes his feet...
...think it started on the bus ride back," Taylor says. "The undergraduate players were talking about how close we had come and how much we wanted to get back there next year. I don't know whether [an NCAA Championship] is a dream. We're thinking we can get to the Garden [for the ECAC Championship game]. And then, maybe, get home ice for the NCAA Tournament. If we do that, I think we'll be in the Final Four...
...always a lot of fun," Harvard forward Lane MacDonald says. "When we were playing in Toronto in my freshman year, he took over the loud speaker on the bus. He and [former Harvard player] Pete Follows started giving us a tour of the city. They talked about the beer in Toronto. Their explanation of the Molson brewery and the Labatt's plant was very interesting...