Word: cab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are among their own kind, cigar worshippers must suffer in a world increasingly hostile to their habit. Even if you're smoking a good cigar, observes Dunhill executive Dickson Farrington, "you can't walk into a store in New York off the street or get into a cab. I've heard about company presidents whose wives won't let them smoke at home, so they volunteer to walk the dog." The standoff probably suits both sides. Endangered male traditions continue to endure behind closed doors, allowing the rest of the world to breathe easier...
...taking the subway to wherever the race started, but I learned that even the commuter rail doesn't get out there. There is a shuttle bus that leaves from Copley, but I didn't know that then, and I was trying to calculate what a twenty-five mile cab fare would cost when a friend told me that her father, who was running, would drive...
...forget that tie if it's Eliot, keep your pajamas on if it's Adams and start hailing a cab if it's Currier. Treat yourself. You'll be walking a hell of a lot for the next three years...
...gonna hit yah, I'd let you get out on the street. And then I woulda hit ah!" Our cab driver was crazy. She was talking to a guy who had hesitated before crossing the street in front of us. The guy had the "Walk" signal, but he sensed danger. He was right. "Son of a bitch." A couple inches of snow on the ground, and she was driving like we were in a chase scene from a low-budget movie. Nothing spectacular, but crazy skidding nonetheless. It was a fitting end to our first trip to the Dedham Hilton...
...verdict provoked a swift outcry from crime-exhausted San Franciscans. Although Hollom's employer, the Luxor Cab Co., promised to cover all his expenses, a local radio station launched a fund-raising drive on his behalf. Within a week more than $25,000 had been collected; the surplus money will be donated to a victims' relief fund. Says Hollom: "I would do exactly the same thing again...