Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge taxi service had all but disappeared by late evening. The cabs of the Cambridge and University Cab Companies were not running by 5 p.m. Cambridge Tech taxis remained in circulation during the afternoon, but could not be contacted through the central office...
...Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down on a baseball diamond, after buzzing it until he broke up the ball game. Len made the last, 38-mile lap by taxi and boat. "When I saw him then," recalls Gladys, "I knew. And he seemed to, too." The next spring they were married...
Twining's answer: "Yes. But I must qualify this. The greater our margin of superiority, the more quickly we could win the air battle. If we could knock out the enemy's capability to hit the U.S., let us say the instant his bombers taxi out to hit us, the U.S. would lose no cities. If it took us a day, the U.S. might have X numbers of bombs dropped on it. If it took us a week, the U.S. might have 2X bombs dropped on it. And if it took us a month, the U.S. might have...
...Europe shivered in the worst winter of the century. "Our temperature is lower than at the North Pole," one Moscow taxi driver told his fare proudly and accurately (Moscow thermometers registered -36.4° F., as opposed to the recordings of -7.6° at the pole). On Helgoland, in the North Sea, chilled islanders gathered together 8,000 cubic meters of firewood to build a gigantic bonfire...
...finally got the attention of the head waiter and when Sherwood explained to him that a valuable, original manuscript had probably been left in a taxi, the waiter said, in a very calm voice: "I wouldn't worry, sir. Nobody ever loses anything in a London taxicab." He was right. The script was back at Sherwood's hotel, the following morning...