Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambush was as sudden as it was effective. Driver Jim Buntin had just dropped his third fare of the morning at Knightsbridge. when he received radio orders to go to Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate...
...Another commuter shared his roll of Life Savers by distributing broken pieces to his comrades. One cheerful man found an air whistle and using it as a tuner, led his car mates in song. Cigarette supplies ran low, newspapers changed hands, a man penciled a sign announcing a new fare rise and marched grimly down the aisles; another stepped out on the car platform and got socked in the kisser with a snowball...
...Second also in time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner's Overture, Liszt's Symphony, Berlioz's dramatic oratorio, and Boito's opera Meflstofele...
...meter diving the Crimson did not fare so well. Clark Peters was eliminated in the first round, and Jeff Lewy was a disappointing thirteenth in the semi-finals. Eight divers qualified for tomorrow night's finals...
ITHACA, NY., March 4--A major championship track meet calls for something special from the participants. To fare well in a meet like tonight's Heptagonal Games, a performer must come up with an effort a little better than his previous best, not a little worse. Not all track men have the ability to do this...