Word: busload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some still unexplained reason, a busload of Palestinian guerrillas drove into the east Beirut sector of Ain Rumanneh. That neighborhood happens to be a stronghold of a fiercely nationalist, right-wing and predominantly Maronite Christian party, the 75,000-member Phalange, whose private 6,000-member militia is the largest in the country. The Phalangists in the area apparently decided that the bus was a provocation, and their militia opened fire, killing 26 aboard the bus and wounding 19. That touched off a battle that raged for five days, embroiling much of Beirut. Before it was over, an estimated...
...lure young mothers by giving free or cut-rate skating classes to preschoolers. One rink has mounted a wedding on wheels. Some rent out the entire skating floor on uncrowded week nights to local community groups and private clubs for an average cost of $250. One night a busload of priests and nuns from the Chicago diocese arrived to kick up their heels and habits at a suburban rink. They pirouetted jauntily round the floor, and before long had dubbed themselves-what else-the "holy rollers...
...October war have given Sadat considerable power at home and a new voice abroad as a leading spokesman for the Arab cause. Domestically, he has used this prestige to work out the highly successful disengagement with Israel. It is proceeding so well that the unexpected "capture" of a busload of touring American Jews last week by Egyptian soldiers (see box) was resolved in good-humored fashion. During a side trip to Cairo by Kissinger, Sadat rewarded the U.S. for what he considers a turnabout in its Middle East attitude. He and Kissinger announced that full diplomatic relations between Egypt...
Theoretically, the search for a cop killer who takes along with his victim a busload of innocent witnesses (by machine-gunning them) ought to have the makings of what Rosenberg claims that he wanted to create: "a Saturday night movie." Unfortunately, however, Rosenberg seems determined to explore all the current cliches of violence −blood spattering picturesquely in the murder sequence, revolting emergency-room and autopsy routines, the inevitable car-chase climax, which makes one almost sorry, in retrospect, that Bullitt and The French Connection were ever made...
...recent morning, one of the school's eight instructors lectured on how to service an Everpure T-9 water filter, which cleans the water used in soft drinks. Students scribbled notes as furiously as if they were taking hamburger orders from a busload of Cub Scouts. Slides flashed across a giant screen detailing every movement of the hand required to maintain the filter. One student asked timidly: "How much charcoal do we put in it?" The instructor replied: "The bag is premeasured...