Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this little old lady gets on the No. 10 bus down Central Park West, just as she does every Sunday morning, with her white gloves and little pillbox hat, the whole thing, on her way to church. She looks up and-whoa, driver, this bus is loaded with hippies. Wrong. It's packed with them, strange cats in flowers, feathers, frock coats, velvet vests, beads, bangles, headbands, hair out to here, and everybody passing joints. Far out. This thing is a rolling time capsule, Age of Aquarius stuff, very 1960s. So the lady sits down next to this dude...
...than 50 miles an hour as we approached the slope. When we reached the bottom, there was a squeal of rubber as he ... made the turn. After our drive he said to me, "This is a very fine automobile. It holds the road very well." "You are an excellent driver," I replied. Diplomacy is not always an easy...
Nothing was ever heard again of the two $35,000 Payloaders. A witness remembers that another tractor truck simply hooked on to the trailer and drove it away. The driver seemed to know exactly what he was doing and aroused no suspicion. Nor was it the company's first experience. A year ago, two J.I. Case backhoes (trench diggers), worth $18,000 each, were stolen the same...
...life on the page. But he also avoids romanticizing them with a league-of-gentlemen myth. Mostly, the sources of his book are an unsavory lot, greedy and loutish. One, however, had a taste for Flaubert and Wittgenstein, another the skill and nerve to become a professional racing-car driver, and a third possessed a spontaneously poetic soul. He greeted the dawn after the successful holdup with lines from Omar Khayyám: "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night/ Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight...
...automobiles states that cars are "the property of the organization" and should be treated "with discretion." They should be maintained in peak condition and kept clean, since dirty cars tend to attract attention. "An automatic car wash takes five minutes," notes the handbook. At night, it cautions, drivers should remove old newspapers and debris as well as radios, tape decks or anything else that could tempt car thieves. In the event of an accident, if minor, the handbook advises Brigades members to "assume responsibility and even pay the costs." If the accident is serious, the driver should "collect...