Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxious whites were relieved to learn that the ruckus was no native uprising but a peaceful "march-to-work" protest against a one-penny (2?) hike in bus fares. Owners of the private bus fleet from Alexandria, ten miles north of Johannesburg and home of many of the city's Negro day laborers, pleaded greater costs, upped the one-way fare from four-to fivepence; a total of twopence a day. Negroes, earning from $12 to $20 monthly, had boycotted the busses...
...Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally snoots...
Last weekend, the club combined with the Radcliffe Outing Club for a bicycle trip and swim. On August 14 and 15, the club will travel the famous Wapack Trail on an overnight hike. August 21 will see another square dance in Memorial Hall, to which the whole College is invited...
...memories of their foot-slogging as in the infantry returned in full force many a man in Company A Saturday afternoon, when Major Bernard A. Merriam set out to disprove what he said as a "rumor that I'm all right on a bicycle but not much on a hike." He took a company out on an extended stroll...
Wihtout further incident the hike ended with a 100-yard dash to Leverett House, Major Merriam leading...