Word: busful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consequence has been that Free China has lost internal fluidity. There is almost no motion except on foot, on donkeyback, on carts with wooden wheels. In Chungking there is one dilapidated alcohol-burning bus line; otherwise rickshas and sedan chairs are the only means of transportation...
Fortunately, many State Conservation Commissions met the fishermen's problem in advance. They planted the bulk of their fish at accessible places: near railroad stations, bus lines, towns' edges...
Shean watched the first rounds of the London blitz from a sunken road near Gravesend. While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin...
Long before post time Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station was so jammed that the Long Island R.R. rolled out some 13 "relief" (not to be confused with special) trains. Thousands more railbirds went by subway, bus, taxi and private cars whose owners left them in side streets or paid $4 to park in back yards. It was one of the biggest opening days in Jamaica's history; attendance, 26.424 (almost twice as many as last year); betting total, a record...
...What," wonder the by-standers, "of the days when six bus-loads of Wellesley unloaded on Harvard's door-step for a dance...