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Word: mta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wylie's lawn signs was burned. The incident attracted a good deal of publicity, with McCann contending that it was blown out of proportion by the liberal press. The race also drew attention when Wylie was arrested after refusing to stop giving out leaflets inside he Harvard Square MTA station. Leafeltting bus stops is a common practice in political campaigns and a spokesman for the MTA could not recall another instance when a candidate has been arrested for doing...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: A Senior Challenges McCann | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

Since Mom didn't show, I got a big treat at the end--a ride back to Cambridge on the MTA. Following the thrill of the Marathon it seemed that it was only right to take the subway; after all, if you're willing to dine with someone you ought to be willing to wash the dishes. It was my feet that hurt most, but of course while I'd spent three hours roughing up my feet, thousands of miles away whole legs were being blown off people's bodies...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking up the Bennies | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

...ones are not totally ridiculous is that they take their place beside older, slightly smaller models of the same thing. Trans planted in any other city, they'd look like the Pru in Boston. For an experiment one day, look at Boston as you cross the Charles on the MTA, Cover the four or five skyscrapers with your hands and see how much closer to the land the red brick looks, clustered around the State House's gold dome...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: No Country for Old Men | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...marchers in the front shouted, "Join Us," those in the rear had been quietly disappearing, filtering into MTA stations and side streets, perhaps intimidated by the five police wagons which were following quietly behind. When the march reached Kenmore Square, there had been about 309 people left, surrounded now by police cars which had rushed north in southbound lanes and lurched over the grassy medians to be in position to move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Word From the Soundtruck Was 'Go All the Way to Harvard Square' | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Demonstrators flooded into the three main arteries from the square while others sat down in the middle of Massachusetts Ave. Some set fire to heaps of trash, and others mounted the roof of the MTA station...

Author: By Garrett Epps and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Rioting Devastates Harvard Square; Windows Smashed, Scores Injured | 4/16/1970 | See Source »

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