Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began cashing in on that weakness. Son Khalil's law practice and business deals began showing enormous profits. So did Brother Fuad's cement plant. Brother Caesar's wife became a busy influence peddler. El Khoury's friend, Henri Pharon, a banker, boss of the taxi drivers' union and owner of a racing stable, was known as the man who could put the fix on any kind of problem...
...pilot carried the pictures himself. Loayza, waiting at the airport, first mistook another for the pilot, but managed to get the pictures just as the pilot was leaving in a taxi. He put them on another plane to New York. They arrived on time, and a picture of Broennimann on the mountain peak appeared with the story...
...soot-blackened spires of the Old Town and battlements of the ancient castle were brave with banners. Flags of many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...
...uniform, Albuquerque did even better. He had a four-room suite of offices in Rio, and branches in three other cities; he bought a newspaper, formed an export-import firm, owned a fleet of 66 taxicabs and four taxi planes, launched a trucking business and bought a partnership in an established car-selling agency. Hourly his 22 messengers dashed out to pay off felipetas. Albuquerque declared that his greatest desire was "to put a copy of the New Testament in the hand and heart of every Brazilian...
Some fell prey to a great, dull hopelessness. In Manhattan, where it often takes 15 minutes to go a block through trucks, cabs and darting pushcarts, a taxi driver said: "We're beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into a fight, but now even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.' They don't even get out to look at a fender." But more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist...