Word: drivered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most mental and attitudinal changes seen in old people are not biological effects of aging. "They are the results of role playing... They [the aging] are supposed to be physically and intellectually infirm." Example: many old people are uncertain, meandering drivers because they are expected to be, just as many women come to adopt the male notion of the dithering woman driver. "Older, fit drivers are the least dangerous on the road," writes Comfort. "By 70-plus you have experience, and the accident-prone fraction of the population is dead or disqualified...
...writer is most successful in his evocation of an emotional landscape. A young Israeli cab driver tells him of a recent visit to a coffee shop with a friend whom he left for a second to chat with someone else: " '... just then the bomb went off and my friend was still there. So now my friend is dead,' said the cabby. His voice, still adolescent, was cracking. 'And this is how we live, mister! O.K.? We live this...
...three points separated them-Lauda leading-in the contest for the World Driving Championship when they came to the final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix. At the foot of Mount Fuji, the matter was decided, not on the track but in the minds of the two drivers. James Hunt took on the risk of racing through rain into fog-shrouded turns. Niki Lauda could not accept the dangers. Hunt finished the race in third place, scoring four points and claiming the driver's crown. Lauda pulled into the pits after one lap, surrendering his title...
...students who recognized this bizarre figure as "Brother Blue" immediately demanded a story. Brother Blue began his version of "Little Blue Riding Hood," and had not finished relating the tale when the bus approached the Radcliffe gate. Students on the bus complained, and the driver resolved the problem by taking the bus around the Quad twice. After warning the students to respect their parents, Blue danced off the bus, accompanied by enthusiastic applause...
...first clue to the identity of the airline bombers came from a taxi driver in Trinidad who overheard two Spanish-speaking passengers discussing the Cubana "accident" shortly after the crash. Port of Spain police found that the pair had checked in-without luggage-at the downtown Holiday Inn. The two men, Freddie Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Losano, were traveling on Venezuelan passports; they had been on the arriving-passenger list of the ill-fated airliner in Barbados earlier in the day, but then flew back to Trinidad. After deplaning, investigators found, the pair placed a call to Orlando...