Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of Britain's besoaked sports fans were either watching rugby games and greyhound races, or among the 500,000 who lined the dangerously high Thames for the Oxford-Cambridge crew race. No one expected any record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both sank in a memorable race in 1912), river officials were afraid that the soggy Thames banks might collapse, dumping the crowds in. But Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat...
Stranded Passengers. Juan Chicoy and his sharp-tongued, sluttish wife, Alice, ran a restaurant, filling station and garage at Rebel Corners. Once a day, Juan in his bus, Sweetheart, shuttled Greyhound bus passengers from one main north-south highway to another. Juan was a dark and sinewy Irish-Mexican whom his wife loved passionately and feared a little "because he was a man, and there aren't very many of them...
...breakfast was going on, a Greyhound bus driver named Louie 42 miles away had spotted among his passengers a good-looking girl who "in some subtle way smelled of sex." She had made a living stripping at stag parties for businessmen. Louie had a reputation for making time with what he called "pigs," but though he got this girl into the seat behind him he didn't make much time with her before she got off at Rebel Corners. By that time the first downpour had drenched the valley, the river was rising dangerously, and Sweetheart was ready...
Snowstorms in Connecticut and other northeastern states snarled traffic last night as the Greyhound Bus Company announced that busses from New York and western points were arriving in Boston as much as two hours late...
...Greyhound Bus Lines expect to be able to handle everyone who needs transportation, an official announced, adding that there was "no unusual demand." The Quaker City Bus Company, which runs one bus a day to New York, still has seats, and the MacKenzie Coach Lines also has accomodations available...