Word: busloads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like almost every event in Ulster, it was mindlessly linked to some unavenged deed from the past. Two weeks ago, a group of Protestants had tossed a grenade at a busload of Catholic workers, killing one (TIME, Feb. 12). The British government placed two Protestants involved in the incident in detention-a technique previously reserved for gunmen and bombers of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. So the Protestants reacted-at the detention, in part, but also because of their fears that the British were going to "sell out" to the Catholics in a forthcoming White Paper that will outline Westminster...
Erupting for four goals in an awesome second-half display of power, Harvard's unbeaten soccer team broke open a scoreless half-time tie and sent a Peter Pan busload of surprised Cornell players back to Ithaca, publicly admitting that this year's Crimson squad may indeed by the team to beat this season in the Ivy League...
...tracking down the killer, only to see him slip away under the cloak of snivelling libertarianism. The district attorney, backed by an intellectual judge from Berkeley, informs Harry that the criminal's rights were violated. This inverted bit of deus ex machina gives Scorpio time to terrorize a busload of children and sends Harry off again on the righteous pursuit of his maniac...
...when one such couple-you could tell that they just didn't cut it for they were not only from New Hampshire but had also been wearing the same clothes all day long -invited their bus driver onto the boat with them. By the time he returned, half his busload had already assembled and were impatiently demanding passage back to Essex. But the Losers had also gotten the bus driver drunk and so, when Mr. Loser boarded the boat for another swing around the harbor, Mrs. Loser led the bus driver off to the nearby sand dunes, leaving...
...Japanese reverently visited the fabled village of Fuji. Set between snowcapped Mount Fuji and the shimmering Pacific, the place inspired poets and printmakers to create misty images of man's harmony with nature. Today Fuji is a small city (pop. 183,000), and tourists still come by the busload. Instead of beauty, they find man-made blight...