Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Investigator. World War II lifted him from obscurity as a faithful, machine-run Senator who dutifully caught the 7:30 bus to his Senate office and dutifully voted 100% New Deal. (His mother, 91, reads the Congressional Record regularly back in Missouri, and reprimands him by mail if he misses a roll call...
...million Muscovites thronged Gorky Street, jampacked balconies and bus tops to watch the procession. Hundreds of Russian militiamen struggled to keep back the curious crowds. Pravda had warned: "No hooting." Most Muscovites watched in silence; only a few muttered: "Bandits! Murderers! Killers!" Once a woman screamed: "Give me back my daughter! Give me back my daughter!" The crowd hushed her. For the most part, the gauntlet the Germans ran was a silent one. But it was a gauntlet: the hatred in the air was almost a solid...
...hundreds of the nation's essential trucks and busses are limping into garages-their heavy tires worn out, and no new ones available. From the great distances of the Southwest, one bus operator reported last week that from 25 to 50% of his equipment will be tied up within 30 to 60 days. Another trucker expects one-third of his units to be off the road by August 15. With new tires scarce, Michigan truckers sarcastically call their OPA tire-purchase certificates "hunting licenses." Nationally, the American Trucking Association says "day by day scores of trucks are going...
...People's War. On London streets dignified Britons forgot their dignity. Sir Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, was standing in a bus queue when he heard the roar, felt the silence...
...group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws with force. On at least one occasion an "uppity" Negro soldier bus-rider was shot dead...