Word: bus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrived early, before the Lehigh team bus, even, to fire up a grill, break out the chips and toss a pigskin at a tailgate. A brat, two burgers and several dropped fly patterns later, I made my way into Harvard Stadium, just as the sun took the bite out of the brisk October...
...unexpectedly cool Saturday morning in August, the Greenpeace Motorbus Terrapin is docked across six lanes of city highway from a farmers' market in St. Louis, Mo. The bus p.a. system blasts rock music, alternating with a short rap against factory fishing trawlers. A woman approaches, says that she agrees the huge ships with huge nets exhaust ocean fisheries and that she would sign a Greenpeace petition against them, except the rock music is noise pollution, so she won't. Somebody turns off the music...
Niaz Dorry rolls her eyes, grins and says she had forgotten how hard collecting signatures can be. She is a big, wide, powerful woman with an amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
Greenpeace was encouraged when Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, whose pollock stocks are hurt by overfishing, filed a bill to limit factory trawling in American waters. Dorry and her Greenpeace colleagues hurriedly stocked their big bus and took off around the U.S. to support Stevens' bill...
...passed lead vocalist Cerys Lewis on the streets busking covers of Jefferson Airplane songs (you know, if I was living in Cardiff and shopping at Debenhams in 1992), I might have thought that the girl had something going. But I wouldn't have given her my bus fare...