Word: chauffeur
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...they say, made the trains run on time. After all--a government which professes to fall every three months or so, but gets back on its feet after some portfolio shuffling; a system so corrupt and inefficient that postal employees sell mail to pulp mills, and civil servants use chauffeur-driven limousines (paid for by the rare person naive enough not to cheat on his taxes) to drive their relatives across the country; and economy in such chaos that major cities have been officially bankrupt for almost two years--how can anyone take such a country seriously...
...porn is scarcely confined to such strips. In Houston, the Bellaire News, which is a combination of a newsstand and a smut shop, is taking applications for the job of topless chauffeur who will whisk tourists in a black Cadillac from downtown hotels to its back room porno parlor. Ex-Prostitute Xaviera Hollander has sold 9 million copies of her paperbacks. Some 780 American theaters, including many elegant first-run houses, routinely show X-rated movies 52 weeks a year...
...brief talk to the gathering after network projections came in, Grandmaison said, "Bayh has said goodbye," but predicted Harris might stay in the race a while longer. "Now he can call for a chauffeur and get extra mayonnaise on his chicken-salad sandwich while he's still in there," Grandmaison said...
...conspirators' one grim success came when they caught Murtala's black Mercedes limousine in a morning rush-hour traffic jam in Lagos. Raking the car with machine-gun fire, the plotters killed Murtala, his chauffeur and an aide. Shortly thereafter, Coup Leader Lieut. Colonel B.S. Dimka and six associates seized the Lagos radio station and announced that they were taking over the government. But there was no support for the action in the army and outlying states, and Dimka soon realized that he was finished. Hands in pockets, he jauntily said, "Excuse me," walked out of the Lagos...
...close margin in the second half tended to drain the Classics' characteristic frivolity. Joel Fisher, the team chauffeur ("best driver") explained, "We want to win. It's tough to have fun when you don't play good people. The games we win by 40 points we never enjoy...