Word: metro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commute is only 15 minutes by Metro--packed like a sardine each morning and evening with the thousands of other federal government workers...
...started with a traditional barbecue in Arlington, Virginia, right across the river from downtown D.C. While some of our crowd of about 15 took the Metro to the Mall to stake out a spot for our picnic blankets, the rest of us went to Adams Morgan to drop off a car at someone's house. We didn't realize the walk back to the Capitol was a good 40 blocks, and we were pretty tired by the time we fought our way through the crowds on the Mall...
When we reached the statue where we were supposed to meet everyone else, they weren't there. We found out later that they were waiting in blocks-long lines at the Metro station, waiting to get farecards. The Mall on the Fourth of July is the definition of a logistical nightmare...
When the show was over, we waited a while for the crowds to disperse, but we still had to walk another 20 blocks to a Metro stop because the lines at the closer stops were ridiculously long...
...Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...