Word: cab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, slow look but, trusting in the wisdom of adults, accompanied her without protest. "I'm not a Catholic," said the woman on leaving, "but I hope He heard my prayers." Replied the nun: "I am sure He heard them." Then woman and child got into a waiting cab, whose driver let them out several blocks away. From there, so far as family and police were concerned, they stepped into nowhere...
...important student organization is the Campus Affairs Committee. Composed of student leaders and faculty members, the CAC serves as a college watchdog, allotting funds to organizations, recognizing new clubs, and determining policy for all social affairs and activities. All dates on the social calendar must be cleared through the CAB, while the group even has a little used but important vote power over the Student Council. The Council handles all class elections for the College, and sets up committees for the CAC. None of Ohio's activities are too demanding--the paper publishes twice a week while other organizations...
...airlines that fly air coaches will crack down on "no-shows" as soon as CAB gives its expected approval. Passengers who fail to appear, or who cancel their space less than three hours before flight time, will be penalized 20% of the price of their tickets (minimum penalty...
...entered Princeton where he majored in French. "At that time." he says, "there were three things I wanted to do: drive a taxi, fly a plane and work on a newspaper." In due course he accomplished all three. Between his junior and senior years at Princeton, he drove a cab around Pittsburgh for six months. "The third day I had the cab job, a man asked me to drive him and his son (the patient) to an insane asylum about 15 miles away. I was so new I didn't know the way. I took him such a roundabout...
...having driven the cab, flown the plane, worked for a paper) Stockly headed for New York determined to work either for The New Yorker magazine or TIME. He came to TIME first, was given a writing trial and hired. For the next seven years he wrote TIME'S Science section...